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Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Hussein K., an Afghan refugee in Freiburg, has been on trial since September for allegedly raping and murdering a student in Freiburg, and disposing of her body in a river. But many of the details of the trial have been hazy -- no one can agree on his real age, and most notably, there's a mysterious chunk of time missing from the geodata and surveillance video analysis of his whereabouts at the time of the crime. He refused to give authorities the passcode to his iPhone, but investigators hired a Munich company (which one is not publicly known) to gain access to his device, according to German news outlet Welt. They searched through Apple's Health app, which was added to all iPhones with the release of iOS 8 in 2014, and were able to gain more data about what he was doing that day. The app records how many steps he took and what kind of activity he was doing throughout that day. The app recorded a portion of his activity as "climbing stairs," which authorities were able to correlate with the time he would have dragged his victim down the river embankment, and then climbed back up. Freiburg police sent an investigator to the scene to replicate his movements, and sure enough, his Health app activity correlated with what was recorded on the defendant's phone.
The app reported his activity as 'Vigorous Intercourse'. Boom.... 99 to life.
This is news?
Apparently they didn't need a backdoor to get the evidence they needed. They used brains and ingenuity.
... do not carry phone when performing criminal acts.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
Missing chunks of data from both phone and video evidence when it involves a highly debated group that the ruling government says doesn't exist. Age can be determined by teeth.
Merkel's propaganda machine hard at work while she's trying to cobble together her government.
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You are only feeding the alt-Right trolls with respect to Germany's empathy towards refugees.
I think we need to accept that, whether we like it or not, there's always going to be some data about what you are doing recorded somewhere. If you're carrying around a computer with GPS and an accelerometer that constantly reports back to who Google or Apple or whatever apps you have installed, you shouldn't be too surprised when someone with enough resources is able to put together a pretty good picture of what you've been up to.
... that if i gain possession of someone's phone, carry it while I commit a crime, then bring it back to the original owner, I will be clear and the phone owner will be framed.
Justice served!
We should absolutely all look the other way as groups of young men from misogynistic cultures are funneled in by the thousands and let loose. Who cares if a few hundred, or thousand, or tens of thousand of women get a little raped/stabbed? They led a privileged (and probably white) life so frankly (or should I say, Frankfurtly!) they deserve it.
I do not know what is /s
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Not evidence!
I'm not saying this person is guilty or not, but this is some pretty indirect evidence.
What other things can correlate to this? Vigorous masturbation? Going to the gym?
I already have no interest in my phone tracking my location, my activity, or any of that crap. At the end of the day, all of that information about you is going to end up in the wrong hands or get misused.
No thanks, I have shockingly little desire to carry around something which tracks my life to this detail.
But, I guess the lesson is if you're going to go out and commit a crime, leave your phone at home. Apparently it will be your alibi.
I'm not familiar with German courts, so I'm commenting on how this would be viewed in the United States.
This is circumstantial evidence. The prosecutors have demonstrated that the Apple Health data is consistent with dumping a body in that river. There are certainly other alternate explanations, not the least of which is legitimately climbing stairs. It's not as damning as a GPS history would be, because it doesn't say where the activity was performed. If the defense offered another plausible explanation, especially with any other corroborating evidence, it would provide more than reasonable doubt.
When you use features like activity tracking, you should expect that your activities are being tracked. If you don't want your activity tracked, turn the feature off, or don't carry the device with you. There are obviously ways to circumvent the encryption and access the data, if law enforcement is willing to pay for it. For lesser offenses, it probably isn't worth the effort for law enforcement to do so. In a case like murder or a mass shooting, there's more incentive for law enforcement to do what it takes to access the data. Ultimately, I believe that encryption is a much-needed check on law enforcement to not extend surveillance too far into our lives.
If I was selected for a jury the prosecutor had better bring a lot more to the table than that. If that's the best evidence for their case I would acquit. Though I might consider that slightly better than eye witness testimony.
... investigators hired a Munich company (which one is not publicly known) to gain access to his device...
I thought it was not possible to get into an iPhone without having a back door present?
Way to be diverse and bow down to rapefugee dreamers from the religion of peace!
Sweden really doesn't care about its women and children.
They'll be raped and killed--just like those men used to do it back home. Enjoy this injection of enriching foreign culture. We have so much to learn from them! Plus I like kabob!
If you are murdering someone, don't bring your phone or smart watch with you.
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Not using it, no plans to use it and why would anyone want such data stored in cloud? Oh, yes! Health insurance companies would pay dearly for such info.
Because this data is VERY flawed. GPS has been shown to exaggerate travel distance by as much as 20% on average.
And GPS is super precise by comparison, but relying on cell tower and gyro/accelerometer data?!
Anyone who's tried to correlate this data with any real world measurements knows that the data is about as accurate as throwing darts blindfolded.
I hope this guys lawyer moves to get that evidence thrown out of court.
It definately doesn't belong there.
hang him
Don't carry your when committing murder!
Don't commit murder!
Hire someone else to commit the murder!
Don't use your phone to hire the someone else to commit the murder!!
If they are successful they are probably psychopats and should be denied entry.
Apple, now with iSnitch technology:
It sees you when you're sleeping
It knows when you're awake
It knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
cool feature by apple health. the murderer got his punishment. for more cool features of iPhones, visit here ==> http://www.coracle.in/
Fucking Muslim "refugee" rapists strike again. Really we should follow Australia's example and keep these savages on an island until they can be sent back.
> Hussein K., an Afghan refugee in Freiburg, has been on trial since September for allegedly raping and murdering a student, and disposing of her body in a river.
In the name of the ancient and most Holy Crown of Hungary, Budapest is resisting the illuminati's "Kalergi-Soros Plan" to flood the European Union with big-cock arab and african migrants, who then impregante our white ladies, forcibly or otherwise and thereby dilute-dissolve the caucasian race by producing IQ 70 mongrel babies.
The government of Dr. Viktor Orban, together with Poland and Slovakia, are like crusader knights standing in the way of a mohamedan invasion of Europe. We erected a fence to keep out the brutes and patrol that line with great armed vigilance. We don't give any rights to those who sneak through, but catch them and throw them over the fence, back to Serbia straight. We already have enough trouble with the ~ 880 thousand strong gipsy-tzigane coloured "ethnic minority" (i.e. violent and thievous, primitive scum combining the worst attributes of blacks and hispanic).
Thus, for a lack of "migrants" we don't have tenorist truck attacks, unlike Germanistan, the Emirate of Sweden and the Caliphate of France. We don't have mass rape and fingering incidents during festivities. We don't need safe zones for our ladyfolk. Putin of Russia supports our christian self-preservation efforts and protects us against the posse of satan-worshipping ancient magus George Soros.
Enough said
... once the muslims reach critical mass.
But all the Left wing, limp wristed, latte-sipping tossers on here will no doubt leap to the defence of monsters like this - which clearly shows you are INSANE.
Good luck surviving when the civil war breaks out - all you Left wing scum are going to be the first to be killed - because BOTH sides (muslims AND non-muslims - that means all white people) are going to be trying to kill you, because YOU caused it to happen in the first place.
Good for them for collecting the data.
But I guess they love crime except when it's directed at them.
Oh well.
Sure am glad that I wasn't climbing stairs at that same time!
I might also be accused of this murder!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
I'll just leave this here...
The Apple health app records me as taking stairs sometimes, just walking around my house. Itâ(TM)s a single floor. Using unreliable technology to determine this is wrong.
First you say this, trying to be clever:
Looking at your reading comprehension, you can't be older than 13.
But then you write this kind of nonsense:
And that's before going into that's before even looking at the numbers of people
Next time you want to be a cunt, read your own masterpieceofshit before posting.
lucm, indeed.