Apple Watch health data has been used in a murder case. (IMAGE: LILI SAMS/MASHABLE)

Your cell phone knows bounty about you, and it’s that wellbeing information that is clearly been vital to settling an Australian murder case.

In September 2016, 57-year-old Myrna Nilsson was discovered dead in the clothing of her Adelaide home.

As indicated by ABC News, her little girl in-law Caroline Dela Rose Nilsson told police that a gathering of men had attacked the home and assaulted her relative.

Bound and choked, Caroline Nilsson said she didn’t see the assault. Yet, in March, police accused her of murder following an examination of the casualty’s Apple Watch, with allegations the story was manufactured.

As per the report, prosecutor Carmen Matteo disclosed to Adelaide Magistrates Court the watch’s movement and heart rate estimations demonstrated an assault happened at 6:38 p.m. what’s more, that the wearer had “in all likelihood” kicked the bucket by 6:45 p.m.

“In the event that that confirmation is acknowledged, it has a tendency to negate the blamed’s form for a contention happening between the perished and these men outside the clothing for a time of up to 20 minutes,”

Matteo said.

Caroline Nilsson told police she rose up out of the house straight after the assault at 10 p.m. to call for help. On the off chance that the Apple Watch information is acknowledged as confirmation, Matteo said this would be over three hours after the assault happened. Judge Oliver Koehn declined safeguard in light of the arraignment’s case, and the issue will come back to court in June.

It’s another occurrence where wellness information has been urgent to criminal cases. In 2017, Connecticut man Richard Dabate was accused of killing his better half, after Fitbit information on the casualty demonstrated irregularities with Dabate’s record of the wrongdoing.

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In a German case prior this year, wellness information off an iPhone was utilized as proof against a man blamed for kill.

Original article by Johnny Lieu