Mealey's (February 23, 2021, 10:25 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found on Feb. 19 that a woman’s claim that Amazon.com Inc.’s “Alexa” digital assistant surreptitiously recorded her conversations must be decided by an arbitrator, reversing a trial court’s ruling that had deemed such recordings not covered by Amazon’s arbitration clause because they were made without anyone’s consent....