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Are you just lazy and in denial? There is traffic sent from both Alexa and Google Home every time it detects something that it considers speech, regardless of whether the wake word was detected. This is not debatable, set up your own tests.
I have Google Home and monitors on my own network, I've never seen suspicious activity. Here's somebody else doing it:
https://labs.sogeti.com/google-home-spying/