I would have been shocked if it was otherwise. As a privacy-minded person, I've tried to tell friends and family that this kind of device was likely selling the

I would have been shocked if it was otherwise. As a privacy-minded person, I've tried to tell friends and family that this kind of device was likely selling their data for years. People mostly don't care, despite many of them not really getting much out of the devices. Like most people I know who have bought an Amazon Echo will usually have one use case they find convenient or impressive, like asking it to play music, and seem to have stopped using it a month later, but it's still sitting there in their home. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are people for whom an always-on voice interface could be an amazing product, but I think far fewer people than would actually use it are impressed by a demo enough to buy it. It's not crazy to me that the average person doesn't understand the systemic implications of being under constant surveillance, but it does surprise me how effective "cool gadget" marketing is on people who don't really get much out of them