The device does claim to only send voice recordings to Amazon during a query (when you say the wake word).
You can ask Alexa, "Are you always listening?" to get details about it. It's possible that the device doesn't have anything interesting anyway and they were just resisting the disclosure for PR reasons.
You can ask Alexa, "Are you always listening?" to get details about it. It's possible that the device doesn't have anything interesting anyway and they were just resisting the disclosure for PR reasons.