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Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:35PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:35PM (#762132)

    ...Amazon only saved small snippets of when a user gives the wake word and a command.

    That's adorable! Do you believe in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny too?

    By the way, I have this wonderful opportunity I'd like to share with you. For just US$5,000.00, you too can be the proud owner of...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:50PM (#762151)

    This isn't the first murder investigation Amazon has been involved in. $5,000 says they get no audio recording of the killing.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:57PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:57PM (#762176) Journal

    Do you believe in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny too?

    Tooth fairy - Yes.
    Easter Bunny - No.

    Wow! Look mom! The tooth fairy gave me $50! Can I borrow some pliers [wikipedia.org] so I can pull out my other teeth?!?!

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