Yes, Alexa is recording mundane details of your life, and it's creepy as hell

Since last year I've had a smart speaker in my living room--an Echo Dot. My family uses it mostly to ask Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, to play music. But after I saw a report that an Alexa-enabled speaker owned by a family in Portland, Oregon, had recorded a conversation and sent it to a contact, I started wondering: what is it picking up on at my house when we're not talking to it directly? So I checked my Alexa history (you can do that through the "settings" portion of the Amazon Alexa smartphone app) to see what kinds of things it recorded without my knowledge. That's when the hairs on the back of my neck started to stand up.