Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case

Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by Johnny555 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:12PM (#13267093)

Allowing that sort of sentence construct violates the privacy afforded by starting with the key phrase. If the Echo did allow this, I would not own one since it would send a lot more unintended sentence fragments to Amazon.

By saying "Alexa" first, it gives me a chance to hear the wake-up tone before I continue my sentence.

So if I'm saying to my friend Alex "Alex uuh, tomorrow we will rob the bank", I have a chance to stop before incriminating myself. But if I say "Tomorrow we'll rob the bank Alex uh... are you in?" and the Echo interprets that as a command, then it's too late, it's already been sent and analyzed.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by fucking_tragedy on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:52PM (#13267859)

It's strange that you'd have concerns about privacy when it comes to sentence structure and not that you have a literal black box with a powerful computer and an always on internet connected microphone in it.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by Johnny555 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:26PM (#13268415)

Are you talking about my phone, my car, or my TV?

I trust Amazon more than Samsung, Chevy or, well, Samsung. But at least I can verify that my Echo is not sending home unusual amounts of data when it's not in use.

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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by ryanlol on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:26PM (#13268412)

Isn't it really easy to run your own code on it? Not really a black box. Except well, literally.

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