IT IS THE HOT GADGET IT STEAMS.
PERHAPS YOU HAVE WOULD YOU KNOW
RIGHT NOW JUDGE FITNESS TRACKERS
V.
FITBIT, BEGAN MIN.
JAW BONE.
POPULAR AND SALES EXPLODEING.
BY TRACK INEVERY STEP AND
SLEEP YOU ARE GIVING UP THE
RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
KAREN DREW SHOWS US HOW
FITNESS TRACKERS ARE MAKING THE
WAY INTO COURTROOMS.
Reporter: WE HAVE ACCESS TO
MORE INFORMATION THAN EVER.
AND WE ARE ALSO PUTTING OUT MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT OURSELVES.
FITNESS TRACKERS CAN CAPTURE
EVERY DETAIL ABOUT HOW WE SPEND
OUR DAY.
AND HOW OUR BODY PERFORMS ALONG
THE WAY.
AND THAT DATA COULD PROVE VERY
VALUABLE POLICE, ATTORNEYS, AND
INSURANCE COMPANIES, MAYBE MORE.
FROM YOUR WAKE TIME TO YOUR
BEDTIME AND ALL YOUR STEPS AND
HEART BEATS IN BETWEEN.
FITNESS TRACKER FANS ARE LOGGING
REAL-TIME DATA ABOUT THEIR EVERY
MOVE AND WITH SOME DEVICES EVEN
LOGGING THEIR GPS COORDINATES.
BUT WILL YOU GRET THAT QUEST FOR
STEPS?
OF COURSE FITNESS TRACKER
CANNOT YELL OUTLIER.
DATA ITSELF CAN PROVE THAT A
PERSON WAS LYING.
Reporter: NEIL ROCK IS A
CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND
OUR LEGAL EXPERT.
IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT THE
TECHNOLOGY STARTS TO ACTUALLY
EXONERATE AND VINDICATE PEOPLE.
Reporter: COMMANDER
MULLIGAN WITH ST. JOHN'S COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAID HIS OFFICE
HAS NOT USED A FITNESS TRACKER
IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION YET.
BUT HIS FORENSIC TEAM PULLS
CLUES FROM CELL PHONES,
COMPUTERS AND OTHER ELECTRONICS.
SO HE SAID WEARABLE FITNESS
TRACKERS FIT RIGHT YOU IN.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND WHAT
THEY MEAN FOR CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION IS IMPROVING ALL
THE TIME.
CERTAINLY IS AN AVENUE THAT
ALLOWS US TO FURTHER
PROSECUTIONS.
Reporter: FITNESS TRACKERS
HAVE POPPED UP IN COURTROOM
CASES.
AND NINA FROM ST. PETERSBURG
TRAVELED TO PENNSYLVANIA WAS
STAYING AT HER BOSS' HOME WHEN
SHE CALLED TO REPORT THAT SHE
WAS RAPED BY A UNKNOWN INTRUDER.
BUT POLICE OBTAINED NINA'S
FITBIT SURGE DEVICE AND DEVICE
SHOWED SHE WAS AWAKE AND WALKING
AROUND THE ENTIRE NIGHT PRIOR TO
THE INCIDENT.
AND DID NOT GO TO BED AS
REPORTED.
POLICE BELIEVE THE STEPS
RECORDED ON HER DEVICE PROVE
THAT NINA WAS AWAKE AND STAGING
THE CRIME SCENE INSTEAD OF BEING
ASLEEP AND RIPPED OUT OF BED
LIKE SHE CLAIMED.
SHE WAS LATER CHARGED WITH A
FALSE REPORT AND TAMPERING WITH
EVIDENCE.
THE SECOND CASE IS THE OPPOSITE
END OF THE SPECTRUM.
CANADIEN WOMAN INJURED IN AN
ACCIDENT FIVE YEARS AGO.
BEFORE FITNESS TRACKERS WERE ON
THE MARKET.
HER LAWYER IS TRYING TO HAVE
FITNESS BAIT DATA ENTERED BOO
EVIDENCE TO SHOW ACTIVITY LEVEL
NOW IS LOW FOR A PERSON OF HER
AGE IN AN EFFORT TO PROVE
PERSONAL INJURY CASE.
ROCK SAID HE WOULD NOT BE
SURPRISED TO SEE THESE SHOW UP
MORE IN COURT.
HARD PHYSICAL DIGITAL DATA.
THAT PROVES THAT THEIR STORY IS
OR WAS UNTRUE.
COULD FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR
FILING A FALSE POLICE REPORT OR
FOR PERJURY.
Reporter: OF COURSE
INVESTIGATORS STILL HAVE TO
PROVE THE CASE TO GET THE
TRACKER THROUGH A SEARCH WARRANT
IF SOMEONE IS UNWILLING TO HAND
IT OVER.
THEY HAVE TO PROVE THE PERSON
WAS WEARING IT DURING THE TIME
IN QUESTION.
WE HIT THE RIVER FRONT DOWNTOWN
TO TALK TO WALKERS AND RUNNERS
TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY THOUGHT
ABOUT IT BEING USED IN
COURTROOMS.
I GUESS IF IT IS USED TO
EXONERATE PEOPLE I DON'T REALLY
CARE.
VIOLATION OF PRIVACY,
ABSOLUTELY.
WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG YOU
AND KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE
LIED THEN THERE YOU GO.
IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR
PRIVACY.
AND YOU CAN DO WITHOUT KNOWING
HOW MANY STEPS YOU HAVE WALKED.
YOU MAY WANT TO FOREGO FITBIT.
LEAKING OF YOUR DATA FROM YOUR
WEARABLE TRACKER IS LIKELY
ALREADY HAPPENING.
CANADIEN RESEARCH NON-PROFIT
TESTED NINE TRACKERS AND FOUND
ONE PASSED THE TEST FOR PRIVACY
AND SECURITY.