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December 29, 2016

Alexa a witness to murder? Prosecutors seek data from Amazon Echo

  • The Arkansas slaying could be a test case for how evidence rules apply to information from home appliances connected to the internet.
  • By JILL BLEED
    Associated Press

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Authorities investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose body was found in a hot tub want to expand the probe to include a new kind of evidence: any comments overheard by the suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker.

    Amazon said it objects to “overbroad” requests as a matter of practice, but prosecutors insist their idea is rooted in a legal precedent that's “as old as Methuselah.”


     
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