Amazon will have the biggest personal data repository soon; and it's not good news

If you ask Alexa, Amazon's smart speaker, that she is spying on you. She replies, "I only send audio back to Amazon when I hear you say the wake word. For more information and to view Amazon's privacy notice, visit the help section of your Alexa app." This reply sounds so naive and gives little hint of the sea of data Amazon's smart speaker captures and stores. To understand the data collection size of'Echo' speaker, Dave Bryant, who has created and sold a multi-million dollar e-commerce store, requested all of his personal data from Amazon.