[colordrops]

It embarrasses me to see such horrible logic and head-in-the-sand thinking on this website.

Whether they record ambient audio or not, how is it implausible or out of character with everything else they do? Facebook and many other companies collect countless dimensions of data on users to profile them for marketing. Audio is just one more. It's not even really that disturbing or far fetched. Why would they ignore such a lucrative data source when they've already tapped so many others?

It's a direct business plan with Amazon's echo for christ sake. What is so hard to comprehend about this?