Author name: Trey Pascador

Amazon Alexa, the virtual assistant that can usually be found being ordered around in people’s homes, now has 10,000 apps, or “skills” in Amazon parlance. The milestone is a major one for Alexa, the smart software in Amazon Echo connected speakers—and increasingly in other devices too. Since hitting the market in June 2015, the voice […]

5498878 Amazon has really proved itself as a hero in recent months. First, it stood with Ivanka Trump by refusing to cave to liberal demands to stop selling her products. Now, as the government demands it give up user privacy data contained on its popular Alexa devices, it has remained firm. The Amazon Echo is

Amazon has filed a motion to dismiss a search warrant for recordings from an Echo owned by a suspected murderer. Amazon argues that both its users’ requests to Alexa and the response the company produces are protected under the First Amendment. The company says it should only have to turn this data over if law

Amazon is refusing to give authorities investigating a murder access to data from Alexa. Prosecutors in an Arkansas murder trial claim that an Amazon Echo could hold data crucial to the case, but Amazon says that data is protected by the First Amendment and is refusing to give it up. The case involves a Bentonville,

Enlarge Image Arkansas investigators have a warrant for recordings from a homicide suspect’s Echo, but Amazon argues the First Amendment protects those recordings. Chris Monroe/CNET Amazon says the First Amendment protects your conversations with Alexa. “Such interactions may constitute expressive content that implicates privacy concerns and First Amendment protections,” the company’s lawyers wrote in a

Advertisement Amazon is keen on protecting customer data and it’s still refusing to turn over Echo recordings requested in a murder investigation, going for a First Amendment argument. For those unfamiliar with the whole matter, Amazon received an order last year to turn over audio from an Echo device, along with account and subscriber information,

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Are robots covered under free speech laws? That may be the issue at stake in a recent Arkansas murder trial. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is pleading First Amendment rights for its automated speaker Alexa in the trial. Prosecutors have requested that the court order Amazon to hand over recordings made by an Echo Dot, a miniature

“Alexa” is the virtual, voice-activated assistant housed in the smash hit Amazon Echo smart speaker, and one of her claims to fame is a growing library of third-party voice apps called “skills.” Each one of them teaches her a new trick or two, and today, that library of skills hit a major milestone, topping 10,000