The way that Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant is ready to respond to your queries is that Echo speakers are always listening for the hotword that wakes them up. In other words, Amazon is listening, in part, to your conversations, and sometimes weird accidents happen. But because your Echo is listening, and because they do send recordings of your queries back to Amazon, prosecutors in a case want Amazon to make data from a particular smart speaker accessible to them.
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Judge orders Amazon to deliver Echo recordings to prosecutors for a murder case originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 23:06:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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