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on Friday February 03 2017, @10:52AM
from the you-have-no-privacy;-get-over-it dept.
from the you-have-no-privacy;-get-over-it dept.
Cory Doctorow reports via Boing Boing
Ross Compton, a 59-year-old homeowner in Middletown, Ohio called 911 in September 2016 to say that his house was on fire; there were many irregularities to the blaze that investigators found suspicious, such as contradictory statements from Compton and the way that the fire had started.
In the ensuing investigation, the police secured a warrant for the logs from his pacemaker, specifically, "Compton's heart rate, pacer demand, and cardiac rhythms before, during, and after the fire".
[...] The data from the pacemaker didn't correspond with Compton's version of what happened.
[...] [The cops] subsequently filed charges of felony aggravated arson and insurance fraud.
Cory links to coverage by Network World.
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Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Friday February 03 2017, @12:13PM
We can say they're "on the beat".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @12:58PM
i don't think that's a Touché worthy comment, but I agree with both statements...
If our authorities do not actually feel quite as threatened as their testimony suggests, and that their statements are the justified reasons for shooting, actually having such biometric feedback of our enforcement agencies would be helpful to determine much about what happens during these events.
Of course, it won't be long before people that refuse to wear fitness trackers are rationalized by default to have something to hide in the eyes of both the law and the media (both of which will be funded or brainwashed to think this, and those that arent bold enough to reject the biometric mandate will resent those that do and seek to pull them down), and will be denied many things and it'll be claimed in court that they are not wearing their government issued collars because they are clearly criminals--or were, and so the cops shot them, no need to check the police's biometric measurements since it was obviously a case of justice enforcement against a crook trying to evade the long wireless arm of the law.
Privacy is dead, long live the anonymous biometric identifiers tied to your IMEI and mac address and IPV6 IP issued at birth!