Amazon pushing back on providing the Echo (Alexa) logs from the murder

[DvlDog4WVU]

Haven't seen this reported on a whole lot. Is is possible or probable that Alexa is always listening and recording and news of that hitting the mainstream public would effectively kill the entire product line for Amazon and seriously impact that stock prices? It lost $23 when this story barely hit the news.

If Amazon has recordings from Alexa that might help solve/prove the murder, do they have a responsibility to provide them?

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-refuses-to-give-police-echo-voice-data-in-murder-case-2016-12

 

[WhiteTailEER]

Haven't seen this reported on a whole lot. Is is possible or probable that Alexa is always listening and recording and news of that hitting the mainstream public would effectively kill the entire product line for Amazon and seriously impact that stock prices? It lost $23 when this story barely hit the news.

If Amazon has recordings from Alexa that might help solve/prove the murder, do they have a responsibility to provide them?

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-refuses-to-give-police-echo-voice-data-in-murder-case-2016-12

This is similar to the privacy laws and everything from that case with the iPhone.
It seems logical to say they should provide information if they have it and it solves a murder. However, it also would impact the privacy agreement that would come with a device like that and if it doesn't say "we'll give your information to the police" then they would be in violation of that agreement as well.

And then if the precedent is set, where does it go? Can the police say they are investigating something and get the records and things like that? Because what if they aren't really investigating an actual crime but are just going on hunch or suspicion?

It's a complicated case Maude, a lot of ins, a lot of outs and what have yous

 

[TarHeelEer]

 

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