As these devices are ‘always on’, they’re always listening, and just waiting to be activated by certain commands. But even hearing the television, the radio, or other noise, they can help decipher what these customers are about, their favorite TV shows, jobs, hobbies, and working life and schedule. All things that Amazon customers aren’t told about. They have essentially become a method of constant surveillance. The kind of thing that’s ridiculed in TV shows and movies.