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To: Robert DeLong

I’m wondering if perhaps the missing CDC guy in Atlanta might have gone out for a run and met with evil. He’d left his wallet, phone and keys at home and didn’t provide extra food and water for his dog. If he were wearing a smartwatch or fitbit would his data show what happened to him?


10 posted on 03/30/2018 2:51:33 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill
I’m wondering if perhaps the missing CDC guy in Atlanta might have gone out for a run and met with evil. He’d left his wallet, phone and keys at home and didn’t provide extra food and water for his dog. If he were wearing a smartwatch or fitbit would his data show what happened to him?

Unfortunately, most of these smartwatches need to download their data to a coupled smartphone via Bluetooth . . . and the CDC guy left his smartphone at home. If they ever find his body and it still has his smartwatch/device on it, they may be able to download those data. I say "may" because the smartphone may be locked with a biometric or a passcode key and if so, the device will erase any data before it will resync to a new smartphone. Data gone.

14 posted on 03/30/2018 3:30:46 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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