Relax: Your Amazon Echo isn't recording everything you say

Police in Bentonville, Ark. recently issued a warrant for Amazon to provide them with voice recordings, transcripts and other information captured by one of the company's Echo speakers, The Information reported Tuesday. Investigators wanted to use that information to make their case against a murder suspect who allegedly strangled a companion a year ago. Most Echo owners will hopefully never find themselves in a similar situation -- but the case still shines a light on the capabilities of voice-controlled speakers and their privacy implications. First things first: No, the Echo isn't recording every word you say, and it also isn't sending a constant audio stream of everything that's going on in your home to Amazon's servers. Not only would this be a privacy nightmare, it would also result in way too much data for Amazon to handle or make sense of.