https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/fitbit-may-have-help-catch-a-killer-again/?yptr=yahoo
Fitbit data may have helped catch one of its customer’s killers, and not for
the first time.
According to numerous media reports, a 90-year-old visited his stepdaughter at
her home in San Jose, Ca. earlier this month, where he says he brought her
pizza and visited briefly. But according to data provided to authorities by
Fitbit, data from the stepdaughter’s Fitbit Alta wristband device — which
tracks one’s heart rate and the number of steps taken during the day — showed a
“significant spike” in her heart rate during the man’s visit, followed by a
“rapid slowing.” Eight minutes after her heart had risen so rapidly, and five
minutes after her stepfather left her home, it stopped.
ker discovered the woman at her home five days later. She had a “gaping
laceration” on her neck and wounds on the top of her head, say police, who
arrested the stepfather based in part on a combination of video surveillance
and assistance from Fitbit, which seems to have a less contentious relationship
with law enforcement than some tech companies.×
Indeed, Fitbit’s newest privacy policy states that the company “may preserve or
disclose information about you to comply with a law, regulation, legal process,
or governmental request; to assert legal rights or defend against legal claims;
or to prevent, detect, or investigate illegal activity, fraud, abuse,
violations of our terms, or threats to the security of the services or the
physical safety of any person.”
[end of quote] Jim Bell
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 5:06:35 PM PDT, Razer <g...@riseup.net>
wrote:
Doh! People who use apple-iances probably need the tip though. They're
pretty... unm... slow.
Rr
-------- Original message --------From: jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> Date:
10/3/18 4:59 PM (GMT-08:00) To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org>
Subject: From Fox News - iPhone can be turned into a bodycam to record police
"Great minds run on the same path" Department.
iPhone can be turned into a bodycam to record police
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/iphone-can-be-turned-into-a-bodycam-to-record-police
