Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com)

Since announcing how many government data requests and wiretap orders it receives, Amazon has so far issued two transparency reports. 

The two reports outline how many subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders the company received to cloud service, Amazon Web Services. 

The cloud makes up a large portion of all the data Amazon gathers, but the company does also collect vast amounts of data from its retail businesses, mobile services, book purchases, and requests made to Echo. 

The company's third report is due to be released in a few weeks but an Amazon spokesperson wouldn't comment on whether or not the company will expand its transparency report to include information regarding whether or not the Amazon Echo has been wiretapped.

 There are reportedly more than three million Amazon Echo speakers out in the wild. Gizmodo filed a freedom of information (FOIA) request with the FBI earlier this year to see if the agency had wiretapped an Echo as part of a criminal investigation. 

The FBI didn't confirm or deny wiretapping the Echo.

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We were an early adopter of Echo.

The sound quality was very good.

We used it for a couple of weeks because it was novel.

But found we didn't use it at all after awhile so we just unplugged the thing and now it sits uselessly on the desk...