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posted by chromas on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the If-you-agreed-it's-not-spying dept.

A judge has ordered Amazon to hand over Echo records to assist with a murder investigation. When Christine Sullivan was found dead in her backyard after being stabbed multiple times, New Hampshire requested for data held by Amazon to be released to help solve the crime.

An Amazon spokesperson said earlier it would not release the recordings "without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us."

The judge agrees.

So he issued just such a legal demand.

[...] "Amazon does not seek to obstruct any lawful investigation but rather seeks to protect the privacy rights of its customers when the government is seeking their data from Amazon, especially when that data may include expressive content protected by the First Amendment," company lawyers wrote at the time.

It is yet to respond to the New Hampshire Court order.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:14AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:14AM (#762112) Homepage Journal

    -cy.

    But at the same time it quite clearly stated - might have even been Tim Cook who stated - they will hand over iCloud data with a warrant.

    Seems to me that would not be a problem were iCloud to use end-to-end encryption.

    And for all it's high-sounding privacy rhetoric, one _cannot_ anonymously download even free-of-charge iOS or macOS apps from the app store. Even when you want a free app, from time to time Apple verifies one's billing information.

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