It is simple. It is a way to convince people to open a port into their home network so that their personal devices can be more easily hacked. I have been “given” 3 amazon devices over the years, and refuse to implement them, simply because I dont want anything “listening” to the conversations in my home ... then F-N Dish built the crap into their boxes and used that to replace their voice control on the remote, so I dumped Dish. Now Xfinity doing the same. Running out of options to keep the stuff out of my house. According to the article, this is now built into Ring so now I need to toss the Ring.
They are building Alexa and Google voice capability into televisions now. I wonder if they will be able to snoop on you even if you don’t activate them?