A quiet family dinner turned into a digital nightmare when a 20-year-old walked into her parents' home, pointed at the Amazon Echo on the counter, and warned that it was listening to everything, only for her stunned father to discover hundreds of recorded conversations sitting inside the Alexa app.
The 41-year-old millennial thought he knew how the smart speaker worked. He believed Alexa only woke up when it heard its name. But after unplugging the device at his daughter's request, she had him open the app and scroll through its stored audio history. What he saw was shocking. There were hundreds of clips from the last two weeks alone, capturing moments he never meant to share. It was the first time he realised that his own home had become a data mine.
