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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.
... do not carry phone when performing criminal acts.
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Perhaps you should stay on reddit? They don't allow discussion of uncomfortable facts, you'll fit right in.
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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.
The story is on Slashdot because you do not get to edit Slashdot. Sorry.
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.
Maybe one day, when there aren't as many asshats on the internet.
Age can be determined by teeth.
The Swedes tried to do that. Most refugees destroy their documents so they can't be deported and Sweden gives preference to children. It turned out that most of the 'child refugees' they were admitting were over 18.
https://www.thelocal.se/201712...
The Migration Agency has so far made 5,700 decisions on the basis of assessments carried out by Rättsmedicinalverket. In 79 percent of those cases the agency decided to formally consider the applicant as older than they had initially claimed in their asylum application, reports Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
Between mid-March and late October, Rättsmedicinalverket carried out a total of 7,858 age assessments. Of those, it found that their examination suggested 6,628 were 18 or older, and 112 "possibly" 18 or older.
The left - who wanted to let in the refugees - claimed that doing tests were a violation of human rights of course and fought the introduction of them to the bitter end. You can expect something similar to happen in Germany.
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Lets hide facts, then the Alt-Right (or whatever) won't be able to use them.
THEN, when some Alt-right guy finds the actual facts, and builds a racist case based on the "system hiding facts" as "proof" of some conspiracy (which is in fact a true conspiracy) he can use all of those actual facts that you wanted to hide as evidence of racial superiority, and recruitment goes through the roof as real facts aren't countered by alternative reasons because they are politically incorrect facts that were hidden.
OR, you know, admit the facts, when they are bad for your cause, because hiding the truth never works out as intended.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You might want to read the entire article you’re linking to, since it doesn’t seem to support the narrative you are trying to posit. Especially this line:
”The results of these checks don't give a picture of how accurate the given age of all asylum seekers in Sweden is, as the checks have only been carried out in cases where there was reason to doubt the person's given age.”
So your statement that “most of the 'child refugees' they were admitting were over 18” is, in fact, not what the article says. Instead, what it does say is in those cases where the Swedish authorities suspected the person’s age was not in fact under 18, it turns out their suspicions were correct.
The authorities were doing their job, in other words.
In fact, the story doesn’t actually even claim these people were intentionally lying. It states that one possible explanation is that, during the eighteen months between the time the applications were originally filed and when they were considered, those people had simply aged past eighteen.
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There have always been asshats.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Believe whatever you want. Network analysis would have determined ages ago if that app communicated with Apple servers, which would have to be periodic.
Security researchers analyze network traffic in controlled environments all the time, and it would be a ton of damage control and egg on face if it was ever subpoenaed or hacked. I doubt this to be the case.
TFA said it was an iPhone 4S. That's two generations earlier than the Secure Enclave, and we already know iPhones without that can be hacked into. No mystery here.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
https://www.thelocal.se/201609...
Sweden will make medical age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers by examining their teeth and knee joints. The new system, unveiled on Friday by the national forensic medicine agency (Rättsmedicinalverket), aims to tackle doubts over the accurate age of those who seek asylum in the country.
With over 35,000 coming last year alone, Sweden has taken in more unaccompanied children and young people than any other country in Europe, and many of them lack identity documents.
The migration authority (Migrationsverket) makes an initial age assessment with every application, but the tests have been criticized for being ineffective. If a person is not clearly over 18, they are registered as a child.
In the last year, several Swedish municipalities have reported suspected cases of adults being placed together with children at residential care homes for young people (known as HVB homes), as well as being sent to school with minors.
According to the migration board, there are doubts about the accurate age of 70 percent of unaccompanied minors who have stated that they are between 15 and 17 years old.
As a solution, the Swedish government asked for medical age assessments to be carried out on a large scale. Rättsmedicinalverket detailed at a media conference on Friday when that work will get under way and explained how it can be done.
Between 15,000 and 18,000 age assessments will now be needed, the agency said. The two methods that will be used are dental maturity assessments involving wisdom teeth, and the examination of knee joints using MRI. The two examinations will be performed independently by MRI clinics and dental clinics.
"Medical age assessments are an integral part of forensic medicine in many other countries, so it is only natural that we carry them out," Rättsmedicinalverket methodology manager Elias Palm commented.
The agency expects to reach an agreement to outsource the assessments by December this year, with the goal of starting the tests during the first quarter of 2017.
Earlier this week a Swedish pediatrician sparked debate when he criticized the current tests authorities use to verify the real age of asylum applicants, claiming some could even be as old as 40.
"The refugee children who are in their early and mid-teens are the ones who end up paying the price for this. These are resources that have been earmarked for children, but are used for another age group," Josef Milerad told newspaper Expressen.
Emphasis mine - the authorities thought 70% of them were lying. And there's still some debate as to whether the age tests are catching enough of them.
I'm sure you'll find people in Sweden saying that there's no problem and anyone who says there is is a racist. It is Sweden after all.
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Your writing is no more coherent than what I can glean of your thoughts.
There will be criminals in any large group. There are Muslims who will rape and murder. There are Christians who will rape and murder. There are Buddhists who will rape and murder. The idea is to make sure they get caught, and apparently the guy got caught and the prosecutors have evidence against him. The system is working.
Age can't be determined just from teeth. There's no obvious natural aging process. Once the adult teeth are in, what we can find is damage from various causes, not aging.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
It's a story about gadgets gathering data their owners without their knowledge. It's a perfectly appropriate topic for Slashdot.
Bones of their wrist works well too in any advanced nation. A persons age should be not be a mystery to law enforcement.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Learn some German politics. The current government is no longer elected, it's a leftover because Merkel has "failed" to create a new government knowing that her term is at an end.
This government (Merkel and party) has indeed said and ran on the platform against the groups saying "many illegals are criminals claiming to be minors, raping and killing" is overblown rhethoric and no such persons exist.
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An iPhone 4 has an accelerometer, so yes it can count steps etc.
Further more it has GPS, so yes it can measure climbs. Considering that a climb is a low speed step with harder shock when setting down the food, it is easy to distinguish without GPS even. Especially if it is a downhill climb as in this example.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I think the rape is already proven by DNA tests. The murder he admitted, but he is silent about why he did all day.
Hence they want to make a profile of his movements.
Germany has no juries in trials, like most countries have none.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
> GPS has been shown to exaggerate travel distance by as much as 20% on average.
Bullshit. GPS will frequently report ridiculous velocities as an inaccurate fix can jump from one side to the other of its approximate location. The further you go (and the longer it takes you), the more accurate the average becomes.
Not only that, but generally the GPS string contains information on the fix quality so you can allow for what uncertainty exists.
If your GPS isn't accurate to within 4m on average, you're not under open sky, you're being spoofed, or there is something wrong with your receiver.
>relying on cell tower and gyro/accelerometer data?!
Cell tower fixes can have accuracy measured in kilometers so absolutely, a cell tower fix is not a location at all, it's a region. However, the accuracy of the device accelerometer will be measurable, and you should certainly have different patterns for sitting, walking, running, and moving in a vehicle. You should also see differences for inclines, stairs, and flat surfaces.
So long as the data is properly analyzed and interpreted by an expert, and is used as corroborative evidence and not primary evidence, I see no insurmountable issue with it being used in a courtroom.
Anyone who has tried to discuss this issue has been shamed and mocked.
What we're currently experiencing is the buildup of another Rotherham.
From the late 1980s until the 2010s, organised child sexual abuse continued almost unchallenged by legal authorities in the northern English town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
[...]
From January 2011 Andrew Norfolk of The Times pressed the issue, reporting in 2012 that the abuse in the town was widespread, and that the police and council had known about it for over ten years.
[...]
In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children, most of them white girls aged 11–16, but also british asian girls whose abuse mirrored the other victims, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men. A "common thread" was that taxi drivers had been picking the children up for sex from care homes and schools. The abuse included gang rape, forcing children to watch rape, dousing them with petrol and threatening to set them on fire, threatening to rape their mothers and younger sisters, and trafficking them to other towns.
[...]
The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; fear that the perpetrators' ethnicity would trigger allegations of racism and damage community relations; the Labour council's reluctance to challenge a Labour-voting ethnic minority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So go on, join the polite fiction. And when all this shit gets uncovered, after enough people have been raped, robbed and murdered, you can then join the chorus of offended people who don't understand how the authorities let that happen again.
lucm, indeed.
You are only feeding the alt-Right trolls with respect to Germany's empathy towards refugees.
Yeah, because facts have a political bias.
Geeze.
Do you have ESP?
It's being discussed at length on /r/The_Donald and /r/MetaCanada and /r/European and all the other usual places.
Sorry, your Reddit censorship narrative is demonstrably wrong.
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Learn some German politics. The current government is no longer elected, it's a leftover because Merkel has "failed" to create a new government knowing that her term is at an end.
This government (Merkel and party) has indeed said and ran on the platform against the groups saying "many illegals are criminals claiming to be minors, raping and killing" is overblown rhethoric and no such persons exist.
I live in Germany. OK, I misunderstood your "ruling government" comment, sorry for this. In this sense, it is indeed the ruling government. However, it is still a lie that anyone said that no such persons exist.
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Clarification: The phone was not an iPhone 4s, but an iPhone 6s. The "Die Welt" article only quotes a policeman as saying that "iPhones from 4s upwards cannot be accessed without the PIN", but makes no further statement as to the actual phone used by the accused. The original source, however, clearly states the phone model as an iPhone 6s:
http://www.badische-zeitung.de...
Sweden can't afford to let the entire population of Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea in. Their population is only about 10 million. And most of the increase in the last 20 years is due to immigration.
If Sweden has a majority of people coming from countries where you get 'killed or end up with an AK in their hand', isn't Sweden going to be like that too? Not to mention that no is going to give the original Swedes asylum and a load of benefits to leave like Sweden did for the third worlders. They'll be stuck there.
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