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police found the Fitbit and the woman gave them her consent to access it,
the device told a different storyy. Apparentlyy the woman had been awake and
walking around all night. According to a local TV station, the woman was
“charged with false reports to law enforcement, false alarms to public
safetyy, and tampering with evidence for allegedlyy overturning furniture and
placing a knife at the scene to make it appear she had been raped byy an
intruder.” 11
On the other hand, activityy trackers can also be used to support disabilityy
claims. A Canadian law firm used activityy-tracker data to show the severe
consequences of a client’s work injuryy. The client had provided the data
companyy Vivametrica, which collects data from wearable devices and
compares it to data about the activityy and health of the general population,
with Fitbit data showing a marked decrease in his activityy. “Till now we’ve
alwayys had to relyy on clinical interpretation,” Simon Muller, of McLeod
Law, LLC, in Calgaryy, told Forbes. “Now we’re looking at longer periods
of time through the course of a dayy, and we have hard data.” 12
Even if yyou don’t have a fitness tracker, smartwatches, such as the
Galaxyy Gear, byy Samsung, can compromise yyour privacyy in similar wayys. If
yyou receive quick-glance notifications, such as texts, e-mails, and phone
calls, on yyour wrist, others might be able to see those messages, too.
There’s been tremendous growth recentlyy in the use of GoPro, a tinyy
camera that yyou strap to yyour helmet or to the dashboard of yyour car so that
it can record a video of yyour movements. But what happens if yyou forget
the password to yyour GoPro mobile app? An Israeli researcher borrowed his
friend’s GoPro and the mobile app associated with it, but he did not have
the password. Like e-mail, the GoPro app allows yyou to reset the password.
However, the procedure—which has since been changed—was flawed.
GoPro sent a link to yyour e-mail as part of the password reset process, but
this link actuallyy led to a ZIP file that was to be downloaded and inserted
onto the device’s SD card. When the researcher opened the ZIP file he
found a text file named “settings” that contained the user’s wireless
credentials—including the SSID and password the GoPro would use to
access the Internet. The researcher discovered that if he changed the
number in the link—8605145—to another number, sayy 8604144, he could
access other people’s GoPro configuration data, which included their