Posted on 01/03/2015 10:14:49 AM PST by BenLurkin
Evidence gleaned from sources like email, social media and GPS trackers has already become common in trials. Newer tech like wearables and smartphone apps exude an even richer exhaust of information concerning our whereabouts, activities and close contacts. Cases like the one heard in Calgary raise questions about what it means to have this data in the courtroom – and how people could use it to protect themselves in the eyes of the law.
An Android app called Alibi, released a few weeks ago, is designed to help citizens protect themselves in this way. Like a civilian version of the body cameras now worn by many police officers, a smartphone running Alibi discreetly records an hour of location data and audio, as well as photographs of a person's surroundings. This data is constantly overwritten until a user elects to store the past hour's cache secretly on their device.
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There's also the potential problem of software glitches. Take Scott Peterson's high-profile murder trial in 2004. Police GPS trackers were used as evidence despite some glitches in the data, including one that indicated Peterson had been driving at thousands of miles an hour.
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Government doesn't care.
Our new illegal alien voters will understand. It's just like Mexico.
Knowing which hour to save indicates that you were in on the crime and knew that you needed to create a cover story. I’d use proof from the app that you were at another location at the time as evidence of your guilt.
I have a Samsung Galaxy 4 phone and this isn’t going to work on it. I tried to use the location tracking history app from Google and it keeps jumping to the location of the cell towers and “sometimes” showing actual GPS location of the phone. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make it stop indicating the cell tower’s locations.
The best bet would probably be an ankle bracelet like the kind used by the courts for home arrest, except with a few twists.
First, a service would monitor the bracelets, and the individual wearing it would have to carry a cellphone, so that they could randomly call him to get a GPS and voice confirmation of their location.
Eventually, such a system could integrate in sound and video, both randomly and if the person wearing the device wanted to record and transmit.
Collars. Locking collars that only service provider has the key to.
Start ringing people’s next as soon as they can walk. Include an electrical shock that can be remotely operated by law enforcement.
It’s for the children.
Leave your phone at home and claim that you didn’t go out. < /sarc >
The idea of having a voluntary ankle bracelet is strictly for your benefit, and temporary. And might save you from prison time, if used as an alibi.
Think of it like security cameras in your home against intruders. 99.999% of the time you don’t need them, but when you do, they are awful handy.
I don’t have a cellphone and I don’r do anything that requires an alibi
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