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"Wynn Resorts, which owns and operates Wynn Las Vegas, plans on installing nearly 5,000 Amazon Echo speakers in its Vegas hotel rooms in an effort to make them feel like mini smart homes."

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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/vegas-hotel-installing-amazon-echo-speakers-every-room-212647543.html


Then there's this:

"During the course of their investigation, police issued a warrant to Amazon requesting data in the form of audio recordings, transcribed records, and other text records from Bates’ Echo."


http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/27/14089836/amazon-echo-privacy-criminal-investigation-data

And so it goes.

From 'The Prisoner':

"Citizens use the phrase "Be seeing you" as a farewell, accompanied by a waving gesture consisting of thumb and forefinger forming a circle over the eye, then tipped forward in a salute. This may be a reminder that in the Village you are under constant surveillance;..."

Some more on this topic.

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"Alexa is at the forefront of all of this right now, but what will become more interesting for police from an investigative perspective is when they’re eventually not interviewing just one device in your home, but interviewing 20 devices in your home. In the very same way that you would ask multiple witnesses at the scene of a homicide or a car crash."

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https://singularityhub.com/2017/01/31/when-electronic-witnesses-are-everywhere-no-secrets-safe/


A lot of food for thought here!

http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202780719018/Amazon-Avoiding-First-Amendment-Clash-Drops-Objections-to-Echo-Warrant/?slreturn=20170208151540

"SAN FRANCISCO ­­— Amazon Inc. has agreed to hand over recordings from an "Echo" device that was in the home of a murder suspect in Arkansas, after initially resisting doing so on First Amendment grounds.

In a stipulation filed Monday in the Circuit Court of Benton County, Arkansas, Amazon's attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine wrote that defendant James Bates had consented to the production of the recordings from his Echo, and that its motion to quash a warrant seeking the data was now moot."

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"The device stores user requests remotely on Amazon's servers so that users can review what they asked for, the results, and even transcripts of what they said."

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