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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by watty on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:09PM (#13267068)
No, from day one people have been sniffing Echo traffic to see if it sends any non-triggered data. It does not.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by ionised on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:18AM (#13283826)
I'm thinking more along the lines of;

"Hey we allow you to delete past recordings associated with your account and as far as you are concerned they will be, but we're gonna keep a copy for ourselves right over here, that you'll never know about."

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by CaptSpify on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:43PM (#13267297)
Wow, so they set up the software to guarantee every user is running the same software? and that can't ever get updated? that's pretty amazing.

/sarcasm

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