IoT Convenience In Abundance... Google and Amazon Patent Filings (Jan 5th 2018)
Do you really want a surveillance web in the home which transmits all of your data to corporations and the intelligence community and hackers? Are you actually insane? Of course Alexa and 'her' friends are listening ALL THE TIME!
Reminder: CIA and NSA seed-funded and oversaw the evolution of Google, them being so closely aligned with US intelligence isn't talked about in our carefully controlled news feeds; just as Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who happens to also own WaPo, is rarely mentioned in connection with his $600 million contract with the CIA.
Here is the Consumer Watchdog report from Dec 2017:
'Google, Amazon Patent Filings Reveal Digital Home Assistant Privacy Problems'
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/Digital%20Assistants%20and%20Privacy.pdf