{"id":30403,"date":"2017-11-29T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30403"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:02:05","slug":"arkansas-times-benton-county-prosecutors-drop-amazon-echo-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30403","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Times: Benton County prosecutors drop Amazon Echo murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/ArkansasBlog\/archives\/2017\/11\/29\/benton-county-prosecutors-drop-amazon-echo-murder-case\">Benton County prosecutors drop Amazon Echo murder case<\/a> by Max Brantley:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>40\/29 reports that prosecutors in Bentonville have dropped prosecution of a murder that received national attention for efforts to use information from an Amazon Echo as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The charge could be refiled.<\/p>\n<p>During the pre-trial process, a judge issued a search warrant for all Amazon recordings from an Echo device in Bates&#8217; home during the time under investigation. That spurred coverage of the implications for a new way for authorities to dig into personal privacy, though prosecutors said it was no different from being able to search phone or bank records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior posts <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26137\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25940\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Times: Benton County prosecutors drop Amazon Echo murder case by Max Brantley:<\/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-30403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403","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=30403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30404,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions\/30404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}