Alexandra Jimenez
There was a case in Arkansas regarding a crime scene that involved James Bates murdering his friend at his home. Bates had people over to watch football, and the following morning one of his friends was found murdered in his hot tub. The local police obtained a search warrant for the Amazon Echo Bates own to try and collect more evidence on the case. The police were able to obtain the Echo, but also requested from Amazon that they give them previous voice recordings in hope that on the night of the murder, someone in the house had asked Echo to search or do something that could give them a glimpse of what exactly happened that night.
Amazon decided not to hand over the recordings to the police, the history of that night has not been released, but all that was known was that the Echo was used to play music that night. But they wanted to see if the device could have potentially recorded any clues, however, the device can only be activated when someone says the key word “Alexa,” it is not always recording its surroundings. But there has been situations where the devices turns on without anyone saying the key word, and it is believe that the device misinterprets situations and think it has heard a person say “Alexa.” Which is why the police though there could potentially find something. This was a request that would have justified a murder being put behind bars, would have eased the family by knowing the murder was behind bars. They could have found evidence to further incriminate this man who is clearly guilty as they had found evidence that he used 140 gallons of water at one in the morning, which is suspicious, and the police came to the conclusion that it was to wash away his patio to get rid of all the blood. The writer brings up the question as to how far situations like this will go, in the future. Will our own devices be used against us? Will they hold up in court? Because this was recorded without consent, will it be able to be used in court? I personally think that amazon should have given the police the history. I know it is an invasion of privacy, but if by law, citizens have to hand over their phones, and finger prints to open the phones, then why could they not have handed over the information?
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