Criminal
Oct. 17, 2017
IoT devices may testify against criminals in court
In a fascinating case in Connecticut, the police earlier this year arrested a murder suspect based in large part on data collected from the victim s Fitbit activity tracker.
Anita Taff-Rice
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CYBERSLEUTH
Eye witness accounts are notoriously unreliable. Photographs can be altered or faked entirely using software such as Adobe s Photoshop. But what about data -- especially data that collected by ordinary devices and stored without much thought. Recall the famous "slow speed" chase of O.J. Simpson s white bronco? The police were able to locate Simpson on the tangled web of Los Angeles freeways because he had made a call from his cell...
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