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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.


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The defendant of a 2015 murder case has allowed Amazon to release information from his Echo smart-home device.

Credit: Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post

A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed to release recordings from the murder defendant's Amazon Echo as possible evidence.

From The Washington Post
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