Our laws need to catch up with stuff like that... :-/
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."
[...]
"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."
more...
"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."
[...]
"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."
more...