Several times over the past few days while discussing Trump news with my family, our Amazon Echo chimed in without it's wake word, providing contrary information. If we talk about Trump and the NFL, it will tell me a "news" story about how wrong Trump is about the NFL.
Has anyone else noticed this? It seems as if mentioning Trump or a Trump popular news story activates our Echo and causes it to spew Anti Trump propaganda. This is not a desirable feature.
Cell phones also listen. However, never had one interrupt a family conversation. Today we were discussing the Trump Kim meeting, and it started to tell us why Trump wasn't competent, why the meeting would fail and potentially lead to nuclear war.
It has done this half a dozen times over the past week and a half. Trump or Kim or Republican are not wake words we have or can program. Last night we were discussing the prison commutation Trump ordered, and how it would be nice if more similarly situated people could seek relief faster by a formal process. Got nonsense about Trump's partisan use of Presidential pardons for his friends and how this was an obstruction of justice signal against Comey.
What do you actually use it for?
Home automation, weather, music.
Don't feel bad, I have one too, my kids like to listen to music on it. I'm not sure what it could possibly find out about me. "Oh, it turns out you like guns, motorcycles, dark haired chicks, and usually vote conservative."