Many of us use voice assistants like Siri, Google, and Alexa on a daily basis. Recently in the United States, Amazon made a change to its smart assistant, Alexa. 

So, how much information are we giving daily to the machines we're chatting with in our homes, and do we really know how much we're trading in the bargain? 

EDITOR'S NOTE: April 16, 2025: This segment stated Amazon removed a privacy setting allowing users of Alexa-enabled speakers to opt out of having their voice recordings stored on Amazon's cloud services. Life Matters would like to clarify that this privacy setting, Do Not Send Voice Recordings, applied only to a subset of US customers. In Australia, voice recordings from Alexa-enabled devices are saved to Amazon's cloud services, though users can opt out of this functionality.