@tasket @enron @mc_lewis It's only connected to the internet insomuch as you want it to be, and only doing the things you programmed* it to do.
When you're not running Amazon's spyware OS it shipped with, it's exactly the same situation as any PC or phone.
(*) I'm using "programmed" in the more originalist sense, not of being the one who wrote the code but who put the instructions, whether written by themselves or someone else, onto the machine to direct its function.