Wearable devices generate a huge amount of fingerprinting data , all of which could be used to create an argument in court . Already , FitBit data has been instrumental in the collapse of a case of a woman accused of rape in London . But will this precedent hold ? In the morning, she filed a police report, claiming that an unknown man had broken into her boss’s home and raped her at knifepoint. 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 create an argument in court . Already , FitBit data has been instrumental in the collapse of a case of a woman accused of rape in London . But will this precedent hold ? 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 .