Such audio data could hold a wealth of information for criminal (and other) investigations. Recorded commands, for example, could show when you went to sleep, when you got up, when you were in the house, who you were with, and more.
Can Alexa Solve the Crime?
Enter the dead body in the hot tub. Victor Collins was found strangled and drowned in James Bates’ hot tub last November. Collins had been having a soak with Bates and two other friends the night before. We won’t go in to all the gory details (you can find a good summation of the alleged murder here), but Bates claims he went to bed early, leaving his friends up with Collins.
Here, the Echo could help tell if Bates was actually asleep or not. According to the Information, police are interested in how the Echo was used to control streaming music that was being played throughout Bates’ house that night.
Bates’s attorney, Kimberly Weber, told ABC News that investigators were overreaching by going after Echo’s information. “What they are trying to do is rather novel, but it’s a deep invasion of privacy,” she said.
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