{"id":38444,"date":"2019-07-06T05:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38444"},"modified":"2019-07-06T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:18:43","slug":"techcrunch-amazon-responds-to-a-us-senators-inquiry-confirms-alexa-voice-records-are-kept-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38444","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch: Amazon responds to a US senator&#8217;s inquiry, confirms Alexa voice records are kept indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/07\/03\/amazon-responds-to-a-u-s-senators-inquiry-confirms-alexa-voice-records-are-kept-indefinitely\/\">Amazon responds to a US senator&#8217;s inquiry, confirms Alexa voice records are kept indefinitely<\/a> by Sarah Perez: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon has responded to a letter of inquiry it received from U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) that asks the company to detail what happens to customers\u2019 Alexa voice records and data after they speak to their virtual assistant. The Senator\u2019s letter was prompted by a CNET investigation in May, which found that Amazon keeps voice records unless users manually delete them \u2014 and that it may keep text transcripts of those voice recordings indefinitely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember these subpoenas?<br \/>\nABC News: NH (2018): <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/judge-orders-amazon-hand-echo-recordings-double-murder\/story?id=59100572\">Judge orders Amazon to hand over Echo recordings in double murder case<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider: AR (2017): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-has-handed-alexa-recordings-to-police-in-an-arkansas-murder-case-2017-3\">Amazon handed over Alexa recordings to the police in a murder case<\/a>. That case got dropped because the state depended on that evidence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/11\/29\/567305812\/arkansas-prosecutors-drop-murder-case-that-hinged-on-evidence-from-amazon-echo\">Arkansas Prosecutors Drop Murder Case That Hinged On Evidence From Amazon Echo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this piece? Bloomberg Opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-06-09\/is-amazon-alexa-always-listening-patent-means-it-may-be\">The Future Will Be Recorded, on Your Smart Speaker<\/a> (&#8220;We should welcome Amazon\u2019s plans for Alexa to listen to more of what we say.&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch: Amazon responds to a US senator&#8217;s inquiry, confirms Alexa voice records are kept indefinitely by Sarah Perez: Amazon has responded to a letter of inquiry it received from U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) that asks the company to detail &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-38444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444","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=38444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38450,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions\/38450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}