Wearable devices generate a huge amount of fingerprinting data, all of which could be used to cement an alibi in court. The researchers also found that the more people wore their devices, the less likely they were to have been at home when the crime was committed. But will this precedent stand? “The smarter the criminal, they more they’ll use it as alibis, it’d be so easy for me to stick my Fitbit in my kid’s In many places, eye-witness testimony is valued over data produced by these sorts of devices, and there is always the potential for a particularly smart criminal to falsify the data, either through hacking the device, or using a mule to create an alibi whilst they commit a crime.
Wearable devices generate a huge amount of fingerprinting data, all of which could be used to cement an alibi in court. The researchers also found that the more people wore their devices, the less likely they were to have been at home when the crime was committed. But will this precedent stand? In many places, eye-witness testimony is valued over data produced by these sorts of devices, and there is always the potential for a particularly smart criminal to falsify the data, either through hacking the device, or using a mule to create an alibi whilst they commit a crime.