The FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ If It’s Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo
If you have an Amazon Echo, a hands-free speaker device, in your home, the FBI might be listening to you.
The FBI responded Wednesday to a Freedom of Information Act request from Gizmodo, telling the publication the agency “can neither confirm nor deny” if it is listening in on Americans’ Amazon Echos.
According to the FBI, they couldn’t disclose whether or not they are wiretapping the devices, because it threatens the techniques they use.
“The mere acknowledgement of whether or not the FBI has any such records in and of itself would disclose techniques, procedures, and/or guidelines that could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law,” the letter read. “Thus, the FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of any records.”
If you have an Amazon Echo, a hands-free speaker device, in your home, the FBI might be listening to you.
The FBI responded Wednesday to a Freedom of Information Act request from Gizmodo, telling the publication the agency “can neither confirm nor deny” if it is listening in on Americans’ Amazon Echos.
According to the FBI, they couldn’t disclose whether or not they are wiretapping the devices, because it threatens the techniques they use.
“The mere acknowledgement of whether or not the FBI has any such records in and of itself would disclose techniques, procedures, and/or guidelines that could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law,” the letter read. “Thus, the FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of any records.”
