Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
by pessimizer on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:45PM
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I think the media have made it clear to the public that there's no expectation of privacy around these devices, and that there would be a hard case to make in court that someone was so insulated from the media that they wouldn't have any knowledge of what those products could be enabled to do with full, legal collaboration between law enforcement and the manufacturer.
Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
by vaishaksuresh on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @03:46PM
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This argument will not stand in the courts. Data collection without consent is illegal, which is why there is so much controversy around the stingray things. Getting a warrant to look at the data may be legal, but collecting the said data without consent is illegal in the first place.
Different things. In a closed room, there is expectation of privacy. It is not the same for what can be seen from an open window. Also, there is no assurance that LE won't misuse this to crush any dissent or silence somebody they don't like. It is easy to take something said at home out of context or doctor it to sound like something else.