No, because much like your phone the Alexa can be muted and entirely controlled from the very device you have deemed "safe". You don't need voice commands, they

No, because much like your phone the Alexa can be muted and entirely controlled from the very device you have deemed "safe". You don't need voice commands, they just happen to make it better than a typical bluetooth powered speaker. Still doesn't change the fact that placement of the Alexa is stationary, so your phone (regardless of how low the probabilities are) is still a considerably more "high risk" device in terms of what it could pick up than an Alexa. To me this just sounds like another person in a whole line of them that screams about privacy unless they have to give up something that's extremely valuable to them. The Alexa isn't valuable to you. Your phone sure is.