{"id":384919,"date":"2018-11-13T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazon-echo-is-always-recording-your-conversations\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:42:53","slug":"amazon-echo-is-always-recording-your-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazon-echo-is-always-recording-your-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Echo is \u201cAlways Recording\u201d Your Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Judge gives authorities access to Alexa recordings in double murder case <\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>November 13, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/131118alexa.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A media professor has warned that Amazon Echo and other such devices are \u201calways recording\u201d private conversations without the consent of their owners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nick Flor, an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Film, &amp; Digital Media at the University of New Mexico\u2019s (UNM) Anderson School of Management, was reacting to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/judge-orders-amazon-hand-over-echo-recordings-home-murder-case-n935221?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">news story<\/a> about a judge\u2019s ruling which gave New Hampshire authorities permission to examine audio recordings from Echo in the case of a double murder where two women were stabbed to death.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s Echo uses its Alexa voice assistant to respond to verbal commands from the user, but only when the word \u201cAlexa\u201d is spoken as a cue, raising questions as to why the murder suspect, Timothy Verrill, would have activated the device before murdering the women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember when Amazon claimed they only started recording when you said: \u201cAlexa\u201d. Turns out that\u2019s a big freakin\u2019 lie,\u201d tweeted Flor. \u201cThese stupid devices are ALWAYS RECORDING. All it takes is one SJW working in Amazon Support to leak all your conversations (For The Greater Good&#x2122;, of course).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember when Amazon claimed they only started recording when you said: &#8220;Alexa&#8221;.  Turns out that&#8217;s a big freakin&#8217; lie. These stupid devices are ALWAYS RECORDING.  All it takes is one SJW working in Amazon Support to leak all your conversations (For The Greater Good&#x2122;, of course) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VUOljdLXIE\">https:\/\/t.co\/VUOljdLXIE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Flor-ProfessorF (@ProfessorF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfessorF\/status\/1062120647994695680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He followed up be remarking; \u201cI guess they\u2019re not *technically* lying. It\u2019s true, they only start recording when you say \u201cAlexa\u201d. What they don\u2019t tell you is they NEVER STOP RECORDING after you say \u201cAlexa\u201d just ONCE.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guess they&#8217;re not *technically* lying. It&#8217;s true, they only start recording when&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/professor-warns-amazon-echo-is-always-recording-your-conversations.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge gives authorities access to Alexa recordings in double murder case Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comNovember 13, 2018 A media professor has warned that Amazon Echo and other such devices are \u201calways recording\u201d private conversations without the consent of their owners. Nick Flor, an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Film, &amp; Digital Media at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}