Police ID woman with her iPod

The woman's in critical condition -- she was a trainee with http://www.active.com/donate/tntgsf/tntgsfEMyers, though I never met her, we sponsor the organization, and they sent out a notice asking if anyone can ID her. Their email said she had 'an orange ipod' -- I called back and told them there was no such thing as an orange iPod, so either check colorwarepc.com for someone who customized it, or look again and make sure that it's not a pink ipod and a bad report. They said they'd look into it, and apparently were already going down to apple by then.

The organization notes to wear reflective gear, run against the flow of traffic, carry ID or have a shoe ID tag, and avoid wearing a headset if jogging.

#9: Due process. That information would not be admissible in court.

Is the woman alright?

If she had her own contact info. in the iPod it would have speeded up the process, but still quick thinking on the part of the police, good job!

Strangely, all I could think of were the privacy issues. Apple just gave the personal information to a police officer. If I were a cop, and I had a suspected criminals iPod, I now know I can just go to an Apple store and say the person was in an accident, and I need to ID her...

I'm glad in this case it helped out, but what's to stop a cop from just lying about it to get private information?

" Silly, stupid people. Your name can be found under the "About this iPod" page on there, or in the contacts book"

Actually this isn't the case if you named your iPod something other than your name like I have done or have multiple contacts in your address book. I sync my address book to my iPod so I have close to 200 contacts on there. So I guess it wouldn't be that easy just to look that info up on the iPod itself

My Nano szved me on my trip last week. The airline lost my luggage. When I was filling out the paperwork the dude absolutely required me to give a local phone number and address. (my cell phone # wasn't good enough for him I guess). Luckily I sync my contacts and was able to find the info.

Of course the unanswered question is was struck by the car because she couldn't hear the car coming up on her with the iPod blasting in her ears.

Silly, stupid people. Your name can be found under the "About this iPod" page on there, or in the contacts book.

I'm wondering if there are any privacy concerns here. Does Apple routinely turn over customer data to the police without a warrant? Granted, in this case it was helping a person, but will that be the case every time. I haven't read the EULA (who has?), so I'm sure we've all signed our lives away to Apple already, but its still a concern.