An Echo is a recording device?

The point was to counter another long thread concerning “cameras and recording devices” that lumped Echos in the recording device category. For the reasons I stated and you clarified, Echos are not recording devices. I understand that Echos unsettle some folks and wanted to clarify that they do NOT enable eavesdropping by HOs and that they do not record anything other than phrases spoken after the wake up word.