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September 29, 2018 06:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bcwYKaqzyaM/apple-watchs-fall-detection-could-get-users-into-legal-trouble
Apple Watch's Fall Detection Could Get Users Into Legal Trouble
AmiMoJo writes: Apple has released more details about how the Watch 4 will contact emergency services if the watch detects that you've had a hard fall. If the watch detects that the wearer is "immobile for about a minute," it begins a 15-second countdown. After that, the Watch will contact emergency services. Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, was quick to point out that, by inviting the police into your home, Apple Watch wearers may be opening themselves up to criminal liability. If police are alerted by an Apple Watch of a possible injury, they do not need a warrant to enter a home under the "community caretaking" exception to the Fourth Amendment. Any evidence of a crime in plain view (e.g. a joint) could land the owner in trouble. The article notes the "(mostly) opt-in nature" of the service, though one New York-based criminal defense attorney had an even better idea. He said he "would much prefer a feature that can automatically dial a user-determined contact."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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