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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by FrancoDiaz on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:14PM (#13264362)
So we know that they have a record of every query that Alexa has detected. I'm guessing what you're questioning is whether they're storing the actual voices so that they can differentiate between different people that have queried Alexa.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by hillz on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:47PM (#13265665)
I'm quite confident that they store the voice data. It's very valuable to them as a source of training data for future versions of 'Alexa'-like products.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by FrancoDiaz on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:15PM (#13266241)
Definitely, as well as being able to eventually differentiate between mom, dad, and the kids.
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