In what is thought to be the first ever case of data from a wearable device being used in court, a female Calgary plaintiff is using information gathered by her Fitbit device to demonstrate that her activity levels have dropped dramatically following an accident. The data is being analyzed by a third-party analytics firm called Vivametrica, which will make its findings known to the court. The case is an example of how our personal data will be utilized in the future as personal fitness-trackers become more mainstream. Although we don’t think of devices like Fitbits as establishing evidence about where we were, or what we were doing at a certain time, the reality is that this is exactly the case.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:55:37 +0000
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