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The reason your Amazon Alexa devices are always listening
Amazon Alexa in all its forms has become increasingly prevalent across households — over 600 million Alexa-enabled devices have been purchased worldwide since its initial release.
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Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem now spans over 600 million devices sold worldwide, a figure that fuels ongoing privacy worries despite not equating to active users. Amazon has recently unveiled several new Alexa‑enabled products, notably a line of tablets that embed the voice assistant. The company is also expanding its Alexa+ service, which adds further real‑world applications to the platform. Whether Alexa is constantly eavesdropping hinges on how “listening” is defined, according to the article.
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