{"id":4273,"date":"2018-11-12T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-asked-to-share-echo-data-in-us-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:51:05","slug":"amazon-asked-to-share-echo-data-in-us-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-asked-to-share-echo-data-in-us-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Amazon Echo speaker\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/10B9C\/production\/_104280586_gettyimages-971026144.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died.<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies were found under the porch of a home in New Hampshire with multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The man accused of their murder has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial next year.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it would not hand over any data about the device without a legally-binding instruction.<\/p>\n<p>The judge had also requested any additional data, such as which devices were paired with it at the time the women were attacked in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon told the Associated Press it would not hand over anything &#8220;without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-40753437\" class=\"story-body__link\">Nest camera and Amazon Echo help catch home intruders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-39191056\" class=\"story-body__link\">Last year the tech giant did agree to hand over data from an Echo<\/a> that may have been operating at the time of a murder in Arkansas &#8211; but only after the defendant consented.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Echo is activated by a wake-up word &#8211; generally the name Alexa &#8211; but fragments of audio are recorded as it awaits a command.<\/p>\n<p>However, the data is only sent back to Amazon if the trigger word is uttered. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46181800\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died. Their bodies were found under the porch of a home in New Hampshire with multiple stab wounds. The man accused of their murder has pleaded &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}