Amazon insists Alexa can only be activated when the allocated 'wake word' is uttered - being Alexa, Computer or Echo.
The tech giant - along with Apple's Siri and, until recently, Google's Assistant - says it saves every single interaction a person has with the device to improve the service - with some 'unintentional' snippets also being recorded if it mistakes another noise for a 'wake word'.
However, evidence seen by Mail Online shows this cannot be the case, or the process is fundamentally flawed, as a host of sounds and conversations were recorded without a clear or legitimate wake word being uttered - some when there was not even a human nearby...read more>>>...