Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for...

[melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Shitty Pro Tips:

Turn on Google Maps Location History and act like a "normie". (You should probably do this for a few months to establish a good and lenthy history)

Then when you want to do murder surprise deprivation of someone's life, leave your phone at home and use a pre-recorded voice of you that would activate and use the Google/Siri assistant at the same time as when you do the deed.

Voila, ez alibi!

[jballs@sh.itjust.works]

That's one of the main points in the podcast Serial. It opens with a question like, "do you remember where you were on Tuesday at 4:45 five weeks ago?"

The person accused of the crime was a highschool student on the 90s before smart phones. When they said they were at track practice after school, it then became "can you prove where you were?"

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

Somewhat fortunately modern technology solved most of this. It's just a matter of asking the right company to provide proof.

[jballs@sh.itjust.works]

That actually played a part in it as well. Ultimately the kid was convicted because of cell phone location data. Part of the controversy was that an expert for the telephone company didn't testify at the time that the data was inaccurate.

[frickineh@lemmy.world]

Yeah turns out, "sitting in my room alone playing video games," isn't much of an alibi. I should get some hobbies that involve people. Like...multi-player games.

[bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

This is why there are so many Twitch streamers. They get nothing out of it except for a perfect alibi.

[bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

To be fair, if you're going to do something really illegal, you shouldn't bring your phone with you anyway, or at least put it on airplane mode. Even without Google Maps, the cell towers will triangulate your approximate location and time, and it's basically the first thing police pull if there's a crime in an area.

You'll also probably need to make sure you conceal your face as you walk by a million ring doorbell cameras, because those will rat you out and disprove your alibi.

[bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Not saying it would have been different today, but at the time cellphones were so new, and not a lot of people had them, a jury just had to trust what they were told. The way it was presented in the podcast seemed as though it was a very new concept for all, and that they weren't really told how wide of a net the cell phone data pulled in. It was all trusted at face value, resulting in the conviction.