> It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded, There is a certain sp

> It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded, There is a certain spectrum of possibilities for how Alexa can handle this audio, all plausible and not equally worthy of consent: from immediate offline processing after explicit activation (never even record a whole command, just as much as is needed and never start processing unless a trigger word was said) to uploading everything to Amazon (including things that may or may not have been trigger words) and having employees listen in on private conversations. Non-IT-people won't be able to know exactly what they're supposedly consenting to, nor whether what Amazon and Google are doing is actually necessary for their gadget to function.