[Nyx]

Yes, you should absolutely be scared. Never own a smart home device. It's a terrible idea, and here's why.

How else would the device know when to detect, and take a command input using your voice? They have to constantly monitor for your voice. This gives smart home devices a loophole through to get into your home, and collect even more of your data. Most companies claim they don't actually send and collect data on their users, but they still do.

Never trust multi-million dollar tech companies with your data. It's the key to their success.

Saying never own a 'smart home device' is a pretty broad and sweeping statement, and one that I find rather alarmist. Smart home devices can be rather handy and serve a useful purpose if used in an efficient manner, rather than a glorified TV remote like most people use Alexa as.

Do you own a smart phone? Is it open source and not serve any data back to the manufacturer? Because I'd argue that simply owning a smart phone has defeated the whole purpose of your argument, considering you've thrown more data at your smart phone's manufacturer by simply owning and using your smart phone than Amazon manages to siphon through Alexa. If you want to beat the man and take control of your data: all the power to you. But being scared of Alexa because you read an article that they steal your data but never even considered how much data your smart phone gets from you defeats the entire purpose of your campaign.