Amazon Echo Could Help With Arkansas Hot Tub Murder Case: Echo’s Data Crucial For Seeking Clues On The Murder
JaiAmazon's intuitive new invention, the Amazon Echo, is a powerful device that is more than just an ordinary speaker. It turns out that the innovative speaker system has ended up recording the Arkansas Hot Tub Murder which happened a while back. The Bentonville, Ark police look forward to collecting the voice recordings data from the gadget to build up the murder case, but it seems like Amazon is not ready to cooperate with the law to hand over the data.
According to The Information, the police issued a warrant which requires Amazon to provide with all the audio recordings done by the Amazon Echo that belonged to the murder suspect, James Andrew Bates. Victor Collins, the victim, was found dead last November in Bates' hot tub which makes him a prime suspect in the murder case.
Products that use digital assistants like Alexa are programmed to listen for "wake up words" which gives the police an idea to check out the machine. They suspect that the Amazon Echo device was accidentally or intentionally turned on to record the audio during the Arkansas hot tub murder time.
However, Amazon is not cooperating with the police department to release the Echo device recordings. The only information that the company offered to the law enforcers was related to Bates' purchases and account details for the product.
Amazon had stated that it is not willing to release the customer information unless a legal and valid demand is served upon them. It "objects to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate demands as a matter of course."
There were other IOT (Inter of Things) devices present in the Arkansas Hot Tub murder room as well which police have used for gathering information for the case. For instance, a water meter connected to the hot tub displays that 140 gallons of water had been used between 1 am and 3 am during the time of the murder. According to the police, Bates tried hiding the evidence by hosing down his hot tub and patio.
Such disagreements to cooperate have occurred among many hi-tech giants and law enforcements in the past as well. For now, the police needs to rely on the information it has received for the Arkansas Hot Tub Murder case. Will Amazon Echo data be provided to the department for building up a stronger case? Surely, that is yet to be seen.
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