Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect's Echo recordings
by Alex Hern and Sam Thielman in New York from on (#26TCM)
Company has declined to provide audio recorded by smart speaker system at house where man died, according to a report
Amazon has refused to hand over data from an Echo smart speaker to US police want to access as part of an investigation into a murder in Arkansas, according to court records seen by tech industry news site The Information.
Arkansas police issued a warrant to Amazon to turn over recordings and other information associated with the device owned by James Andrew Bates. Bates has been charged with the murder of a man found dead in his hot tub in November 2015.