I've played with the Echo, it is really nice, but ... much like Siri, Cortana and Google Now, using it fully gives up any shred of remaining privacy you had wit

I've played with the Echo, it is really nice, but ... much like Siri, Cortana and Google Now, using it fully gives up any shred of remaining privacy you had within your own home. I would gladly pay twice as much for an Echo-device that doesn't route all my instructions through $BEHEMOTH servers.