The one thing about these stories that keep coming out about the home assistants... they kind of create the impression that this is an issue specific to home speakers, and you can avoid it, by simply not buying them.
That's misleading.
Any voice command you use to operate any internet connected tech gadget, from phones to smart TV's, is potentially stored and flagged for human review.
You really have to avoid using voice commands at all, on all of your devices. Even that is probably insufficient. You probably have to go even further and actively disable voice command features on all of your devices, assuming they actually support such a setting. Otherwise here's still the possibility of an accidental recording taking a journey through the clouds, to a stranger's ears.
That's misleading.
Any voice command you use to operate any internet connected tech gadget, from phones to smart TV's, is potentially stored and flagged for human review.
You really have to avoid using voice commands at all, on all of your devices. Even that is probably insufficient. You probably have to go even further and actively disable voice command features on all of your devices, assuming they actually support such a setting. Otherwise here's still the possibility of an accidental recording taking a journey through the clouds, to a stranger's ears.