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by userbinator 3126 days ago
Ultimately, the service enables people to order from Amazon and gathers training data for their algorithms, so regardless of whether you're using it through an Echo or a Furby or whatever else, they win.

To put it bluntly, why would they stop others from making their profitable data collection easier and doing it for them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Privacy_concerns