A lawyer in Canada used data from a Fitbit wristband in an insurance fraud case to support his client’s claims. The analytics software can currently only be used with activity trackers, but the company is in the process of expanding it to work with other wearable devices. The company hopes to collect data using APIs from multiple wearable brands and anonymize it for research purposes. There are clear obstacles to gathering and using wearable data in a case where the user isn’t willingly sharing it with the courts to buttress their case.”]

