The police question to a smart speaker: Alexa, who killed this woman?

Alexa, the Amazon Virtual Voice Assistant, could have a fundamental test to clarify a feminicide that happened in Hallandale Beach, Florida, USA last July.

The local police believe that the two Echo machines that Silvia Galva, 32, had at her home could have heard and recorded some of the words spoken before his death, of which 43-year-old Adam Reechard Crespo has been accused of being his boyfriend.

According to Sentinel of the sunCrespo told police that on the day of his death they were arguing when his girlfriend took a spear into the house.

Crespo turned around and when he looked again, he saw that Galva had the gun stuck in his chest and pulled him out because he thought the injury was not so deep.

The police asked Amazon to register the two Echo devices at Galva and the company sent them to them, but a police spokesman told the newspaper that they had not not finished analyzing them.

The Echo and Echo Dot devices are constantly alert and waiting for the word "Alexa", but they only listen and record the word "alarm clock", explained a spokesman for Amazon.

This year, Amazon celebrated its "Alexa Day" at a time when controversy was sweeping the virtual assistants. After the beginning of July, the Belgian press announced that the people hired by Google were listening to some of the interactions of the users remain with Google Assistant.

As a result of this case, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft have acknowledged that they have applied similar practices since the beginning of the operation of their services, which is known in the industry, but that on many occasions information had not been communicated. accurate or transparent to the public.