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In our modern times many of us have a smart speaker in our homes, to help with everyday life.

We ask Alexa for information on the weather, recipes and the news, among many other things.

However some of us are worried that smart speakers might be listening to our conversations and now a tech expert was warned people to keep Alexa downstairs only - reports Mirror Online.

Dr Hannah Fry said the digital assistant should be treated the same as other guests in your home and kept out of private areas such as the bedroom and bathroom.

With an estimated two million households in the UK thought to own an Alexa, Dr Fry, a mathematician and expert on tech company algorithms, says there is a ‘creep’ of allowing gadgets to invade our privacy, as reported by the Daily Mail .

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The associate professor at University College London said: "I think there are some spaces in your home, like the bedroom and bathroom, which should remain completely private.

"This technology is activated by a trigger word but it keeps recording for a short period afterwards.

"People accept that, but we should all spend more time thinking about what it means for us."

After Dr Fry asked tech firms to provide the data they had collected on her, she said she found recordings of conversations taken from within her home.

She added that 'very senior' people in the tech industry won't even take a smartphone into their bedroom and buyers should be very wary of low price technology with microphones linked to the internet.

Earlier this year, Amazon admitted staff listen to customers conversations through Alexa, stating the recordings were used to help improve the Echo device’s understanding of human speech.

A report by news site Bloomberg suggested many users are unaware humans are listening in, with staff each able to review up to 1,000 audio clips a day.

Teams had also shared recordings they found funny in internal chat rooms.