How To Stop Your Amazon Echo From Listening And Tracking Your Voice Messages

The Amazon Echo is a helpful tech device to keep in your home for a number of reasons. Whether you are itching to get a quick weather report or want to find out the score to a game — the Amazon Echo provides fast info using little more than voice commands. It’s also the perfect device from which to play music or make phone calls. But it’s no secret that the Amazon Echo has been called out for the ways that it can invade your privacy, as well. The Echo may just be listening to your conversations and leaving you vulnerable in ways you never thought possible. 

And if you use Alexa to connect with your banking account, for example, you can get a sense of how bad things can get when your data is breached. But here’s the good news: you CAN stop your Amazon Echo from listening and tracking your voice messages. Jonathan Palley, Partner of QR Code Generator Hub, and Nazmul Asif, co-founder of diviflash.com,  say these are the steps you can take to keep Amazon Echo more private. 

It sounds far too simple, but muting the microphone is the easy way that you can keep Amazon Echo from listening in. “Use the ‘mute’ button on your Amazon Echo to prevent it from listening to and tracking your voice,” Palley says. “A physical button or switch that lets you manually muffle the microphone is often present on Amazon Echo devices. The microphone is turned off while the gadget is muted, so it can’t record any audio or listen to your voice commands.”

Your talks or interactions with the gadget won’t be recorded or stored thanks to this, Palley notes. “You may manage whether your Amazon Echo is actively listening to your voice by turning on the mute option when you want to keep private,” he adds.