[andrewgioia]

This should be standard info at this point if you buy one of these things, but I still find Amazon's specifically-crafted responses to this so frustrating.

Out of one side of their mouth is the standard obfuscation with not selling _personal information_ or _requests_ per se:

> "We are not in the business of selling our customers' personal information and we do not share Alexa requests with advertising networks."

But out of the other side is indeed confirmation that they're sharing the "results":

> "Developers get the information necessary to fulfill your requests within their skills, such as answers when you play a trivia skill, or the name of the song you want to play..."

Maybe they're not actually sending raw audio or transcripts (or they are in some cases or with some partners, I would not be surprised about that either), but they're sending some amorphous amount of "information necessary to fulfill [our] requests" with no specifics obviously. A non-shady company would clearly articulate what they're sharing.

How do you trust this at all, or not just assume it's all going to the "41 advertising partners" they currently share it with?