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Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. By Gina Kolata Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News ...

A pacemaker, which unconfirmed media reports say Nancy Guthrie has, does not contain GPS and cannot be used to track a person's location. A pacemaker will continue to function even if it stops syncing ...