Amazon is watching, listening and tracking you. Here's how to stop it

Tech columnist Kim Komando shows you the settings you need to change on Amazon settings to safeguard your privacy. Amazon is not only watching over your shopping, TV viewing, music listening and book reading histories, it's also listening to you at home, or in the car. At least that's how it is in my household, where I have two Amazon Echo speakers – one in the kitchen and another in the garage, plus a car accessory to bring the Alexa personal assistant along with me on drives. I don't have a lot of smart home devices, but if I did, Amazon would have access to my doorbell and security – who's coming and going – and more. At the Amazon CES booth in 2019, the e-tailer showed off many products that work with Alexa. Unlike Facebook and Google, which slyly follow you around on your mobile phone and elsewhere to slip in more product sells, even if you're not using their apps, Amazon is rather upfront about the information it collects, even if it's hidden in several pages of a help menu.