{"id":27389,"date":"2017-06-01T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27389"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:47:39","slug":"time-alexa-takes-the-stand-listening-devices-raise-privacy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27389","title":{"rendered":"Time: Alexa Takes the Stand: Listening Devices Raise Privacy Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4766611\/alexa-takes-the-stand-listening-devices-raise-privacy-issues\/\">Alexa Takes the Stand: Listening Devices Raise Privacy Issues<\/a> by Haley Sweetland Edwards:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Victor Collins was found dead, floating faceup in his friend James Bates&#8217; hot tub in Bentonville, Ark., one chilly morning in November 2015, police were quick to suspect foul play. Broken glass littered the patio, and blood was splattered on a brown vinyl pool cover nearby. But in a subsequent investigation, which led police to indict Bates, 32, for Collins&#8217; murder, some of the most crucial evidence was gleaned not only from the crime scene but from an array of Internet-connected devices in Bates&#8217; home.<\/p>\n<p>Data from his &#8220;smart&#8221; utility meter, for example, indicated that someone had used 140 gal. of water between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., a detail that seemed to confirm investigators&#8217; suspicions that the patio had been hosed down before they arrived. Records from Bates&#8217; iPhone 6s Plus, which required a passcode or fingerprint to unlock, suggested he had made phone calls long after he told police he&#8217;d gone to sleep. And audio files captured by Bates&#8217; Echo, Amazon&#8217;s popular personal assistant that answers to &#8220;Alexa,&#8221; promised to offer police a rare window into Bates&#8217; living room the night Collins died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: Alexa Takes the Stand: Listening Devices Raise Privacy Issues by Haley Sweetland Edwards:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27390,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389\/revisions\/27390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}