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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by supergeek133 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:55PM (#13265174)
If at the request of the government, yeah that's a problem unless there is some kind of warrant, right?

I'm all for people being suspicious, but the intent of this was to say "the cops are hoping it might catch something" as in it was accidentally triggered.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by rhizome on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:38PM (#13266840)
If at the request of the government, yeah that's a problem unless there is some kind of warrant, right?

Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by supergeek133 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:12AM (#13271408)
Yes and that's a problem with law not catching up with technology. Unfortunately for many people in the country, other social/financial issues are more important to them.
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