Spiral Toys, the company behind the controversial CloudPets stuffed animals, reportedly exposed over two million recorded messages from its customers to online hackers.
The Echo isn't recording every word you say and it also is not sending a constant audio stream of everything on your surroundings to the servers as it will result in way too much data for Amazon to handle.
A digital right group activists demanded that the U.S. Justice Department reveal whether secret court order had been used to force tech companies to provide encrypted data. The case emerged amid the tension between tech companies and law enforcement agencies over the encryption issue, such as the dispute between Apple and the FBI.