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Mate, your Alexa is plugged in, it's not a phone. You agree to your Alexa constantly listening when you buy it. It's a feature, not a bug.
If your phone would listen as much as your Alexa you'd be out of battery in three hours.
Battery-powered bluetooth speaker.
For sure, I'm just pointing out that these devices are always listening, and someone can agree to the assistant features, that shouldn't include recording entire conversations that have nothing to do with Alexa.
That's more of a bug instead of someone actively monitoring you. The device accidentally thought you activated it, so it started listening.
You wouldn't be able to access those recordings if they were trying to spy on you.
Besides that, you literally agreed to it when buying and setting the device up. This is not the case with your phone (if you switch the assistant off, if it's on and heard the keyword it might still upload data of course).