I'm sure my phone is leaking way more data than an Alexa.

But most people aren’t famous, so who cares?

wow! this needs proof and evidence. you can't just pull this out of nowhere?

afaik it's becoming harder & harder to get data out of your phone without you unlocking them. now, if you choose to share your private information on said phone, that's another discussion.

i want to think that movement tracking and giving away private information about you -- and perhaps not-knowingly about people around you -- are different things!

- I walk down the street and everybody can see me.

And

- I walk down the street and my moves are recorded and stored forever in some db which may be abused or leak.

The chances of that piece of information coming back to hurt you in the course of the next decades are so much higher.