Fitbit involves a 90-year-old man in the murder of his daughter-in-law

When Karen Navarra, 67, was found dead on 13 September, stabbed in her head and neck in her home in San José, it was clear to the investigators that the person who killed her had organized the murder. scene to commit suicide.

His father-in-law, Anthony Aiello, told the police that he went to Navarre on September 8, bringing him pizzas and biscotti and staying about 15 minutes. Security footage showed that this 90-year-old man's car was still in the driveway when his heart rate increased, slowed down, and then stopped, which police determined with them. data from the Fitbit Alta HR activity tracker that Navarra wore when she died.

Aiello, married to Navarra's 92-year-old mother, was arrested last week for murder and incarcerated in Santa Clara County Prison. New York Times reports. He will appear in court in San Jose today.

This is not the first time that Fitbit (fit) files have been used in a murder investigation. Connie Dabate was killed in her home in Connecticut in December 2015 and, with the help of her fitness track record and Facebook posts, the police involved her husband, Richard Dabate, who is now charged with murder. . The Iowa police also searched the Fitbit records in the investigation led by Mollie Tibbetts this summer.

The cooperative attitude of Fitbit vis-à-vis the police forces contrasts with that of Apple, which refused to provide the FBI with software allowing Israel to infiltrate the iPhone Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters of the mass murder of San Bernardino in 2015.

Fitbit was not immediately available for comment. The Fitbit Privacy Policy states: "We may retain or disclose information about you in order to comply with any law, regulation, legal process or government request; enforce legal rights or defend against lawsuits; or to prevent, detect or investigate illegal activities, fraud, abuse, breach of our terms or threats to the security of the Services or to the physical safety of any person. "

Alta HR was launched in the spring of 2017, adding heart rate monitoring to the Alta model from the previous year. Fitbit's attempts to enter the smart watch market have been moderately successful, holding about one-fifth of the US smart watch market in the second quarter of this year.