trade-off. for an average user, such as you or your friend, you would never know that it is recording. the small wi-fi enabled device may know so much about you it could even hold clues to an unsolved murder. authorities in bentonville, arkansas, have asked amazon for help after they have recovered an echo inside a crime scene. they believe that it is possible that some of the events that took place in the night in the early morning hours of this murder could have been recorded. amazon says it will not release customer information from its servers, unless the company is legally required to do so. it s a bit reminiscent of the fight between law and apple over unlocking the iphone belonging to the san bernardino government. doesn t matter if it is amazon, apple, google, microsoft, or samsung. pretty much anything with voice recognition software opens you
arkansas, authorities in bentonville have asked amazon to access information on its servers after they recovered an amazon echo digital assistant from the scene of a murder. because the device records when you talk to it, even saving some of that audio in the cloud, cops want to know if they gadget may have caught and recorded a fight or any other piece of evidence. it is good at isolating the person who is speaking, but it still doesn t manage to pick up everything else. meaning everything in its environment. amazon says it will not release customer information from their servers unless they are legally told to do so. it is not clear whether arkansas prosecutors will take it that far, but it does reaffirm what internet security experts have warned for some time, convenience versus privacy. millions of these products are now an american household, and by no means is this limited to