Information choice and security via a decoupled router with an always listening assistant device

A method of providing information security for an always-listening-capable first computing device, via a second computing device having a communication module decoupled from the always listening-capable first computing device and in a same computing network, comprising:

• receiving, by a gate-keeping module via an exclusive input lead, a user input from the first computing device;
• recording the user input;
• determining that the user input comprises an utterance or gesture associated with a first input content;
• retrieving a response to the user input from a first server different from a second server that the first computing device would have retrieved data from but for the second computing device preventing an electronic communication being sent from the first computing device to the second server,
• wherein all data received by the communications module passes through the gate-keeping module while a gatekeeping function is disabled, no data passes through the communications module while the gatekeeping function is enabled, and a unique network path from the first computing device to the second server passes through the second computing device;
• and
• providing the response to the first computing device.

A system comprising:

• a first computing device comprising:
• a first electronic sensor configured to receive data input from a user;
• and
• a communications module configured to transmit the data input and receive one or more responses;
• a second computing device comprising:
• a gate-keeping module, implemented by a processor, comprising an exclusive input lead configured to receive all the data input from the first computing device;
• wherein
• all data, received from the first computing device, passes through the gate-keeping module while a gatekeeping function is disabled, and
• no data, received from the first computing device, passes through the gate-keeping module while the gatekeeping function is enabled;
• and
• non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the second computing device to:
• determine that user input recorded by the first electronic sensor comprises a first input content;
• retrieve a response to the user input from a first server different from a second server that the second computing device would have retrieved data from but for the second computing device preventing an electronic communication being sent from the first computing device to the second server, wherein a unique network path from the first computing device to the second server passes through the second computing device;
• and
• provide the response to the second computing device.