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07-01-2015, 09:46 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexander-howard/how-data-from-wearable-te_b_7698764.html
When wearable computers can disprove what someone told police, you know you're living in a future that has arrived sooner than expected.
According to LancasterOnline, a woman in Pennsylvania has been charged with knowingly filing a false report after forensic evidence and the data from her Fitbit undermined her claim of rape.
The court affidavit obtained by LancasterOnline indicated that data from her wearable fitness tracker showed that the woman in question, Jeannine Risley, was awake and active the entire night, including at the time she told police officers she was sleeping.
This wasn't the the first time that Fitbit data has been used in a court room. Last November, Parmy Olson reported how a Fitbit was used in a personal injury claim by a personal trainer in Calgary, Canada. In that case, data from the activity tracker was analyzed to establish a baseline reference for her level of fitness to compare it to someone of her age and profession.
In the case in Pennsylvania, however, Fitbut data was directly used to contradict a claim. As Kashmir Hill observed at Fusion, "it's likely we'll see more Fitbits being trotted out in court in the future, as the wearable trend takes hold, and self-tracking leads to self-incrimination."
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I'll say it again until someone else says it.
"Without Privacy, everything you do regardless if you consider it to be Right or Wrong, is subject to someone elses approval.
When wearable computers can disprove what someone told police, you know you're living in a future that has arrived sooner than expected.
According to LancasterOnline, a woman in Pennsylvania has been charged with knowingly filing a false report after forensic evidence and the data from her Fitbit undermined her claim of rape.
The court affidavit obtained by LancasterOnline indicated that data from her wearable fitness tracker showed that the woman in question, Jeannine Risley, was awake and active the entire night, including at the time she told police officers she was sleeping.
This wasn't the the first time that Fitbit data has been used in a court room. Last November, Parmy Olson reported how a Fitbit was used in a personal injury claim by a personal trainer in Calgary, Canada. In that case, data from the activity tracker was analyzed to establish a baseline reference for her level of fitness to compare it to someone of her age and profession.
In the case in Pennsylvania, however, Fitbut data was directly used to contradict a claim. As Kashmir Hill observed at Fusion, "it's likely we'll see more Fitbits being trotted out in court in the future, as the wearable trend takes hold, and self-tracking leads to self-incrimination."
...
Full article on Link.
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I'll say it again until someone else says it.
"Without Privacy, everything you do regardless if you consider it to be Right or Wrong, is subject to someone elses approval.