Alexa?! Alexa?! ALEXA?!!

I keep reading stories about how people who own an Amazon Echo device should be concerned about a loss of privacy with its constant voice monitoring system. 

Anyone writing these articles obviously doesn’t own an Amazon Echo device, otherwise they’d know what my family already knows… it barely understands a word you’re saying. 

Example at our house on a Friday night:

“Alexa, play Kraftwerk.”

“Now playing Men at Work.”

“No! Play Kraftwerk!”

“Captain Kirk is the fictional captain of…”

“NOOO!!!!”