Feb 23, 2017
Amazon resists Echo murder evidence call
In its first formal legal response to the request for audio recordings to be handed over, Amazon said prosecutors had failed to establish it was necessary. Police want any information from the Echo that may be on Amazon's servers on the night of Victor Collins' death. Lawyers for Amazon filed a motion last week asking a judge to throw out requests for Echo data to be handed over: "Given the important First Amendment and privacy implications at stake, the warrant should be quashed unless the Court finds that the State has met its heightened burden for compelled production of such materials," its court filings read. And, in a statement to Associated Press, the firm added: "Amazon will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us. Amazon objects to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate demands as a matter of course," the company said in a statement. The "Always on" Echo speaker makes recordings of audio it hears from a fraction of a second before it detects a wake word - either Alexa or Amazon - until it judges the command to be over. In December 2016, Amazon was issued with two search warrants but refused to share information sent by the smart device to its servers.
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