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This is why although I don't love my Apple Watch, I'm not using anything else. It's very sensitive data and Apple is the only company worth trusting with it. They're not perfect but compared to others there's no competition.
Wonder what makes you you think so. Care to elaborate? Really hope it's not their ubiquitous ads showcasing how they "treat privacy seriously".
Why is it even necessary to save this data in the cloud?
It's been over a decade since the Snowden revelations. We know full well that the large tech companies collect massive amounts of your personal data and secretly share it all with the US government. Not requests, not occasionally, not some - everything. And there are even formal mechanisms for this, like National Security Letters, which essentially guarantee silence. So, why are we seeing articles like this, which ra…
It is incredible to read "I believe company A only!". They need to educate themselves otherwise noone would be able to stop the government machine.
What will the government even do with my heart rate and blood oxygen data? "Mr Smith has been running again, we better bring him in for questioning!" Edit: to be clear, the government is requesting the data, so clearly they're doing something with it... But what? I don't see it!
Target infamously was inferring when teenage girls were pregnant before their parents knew based on reward card data records of single merchant retail purchases.... in 2002. Tech companies when they speak to VCs: look at all the creepy things we can infer with ooodles of aggregated data and AI to maximize targeted ad revenue, we're worth 50x what an equivalent non-tech company in our sector is valued, because of all…
What in god's name possesses someone to buy (and pay a subscription for) a device that gathers and sells their health data in exchange for a placebo dashboard of numbers...
This is why although I don't love my Apple Watch, I'm not using anything else. It's very sensitive data and Apple is the only company worth trusting with it. They're not perfect but compared to others there's no competition.
Apple might be pretty good now. There's no assurance they always will be.
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Apple literally removed encrypted file storage as a feature in the UK rather than comply with demands for access to encrypted customer data from the UK government. Previously, they refused US government demands for a backdoor that would allow them to unlock locked devices.
> Apple literally removed encrypted file storage as a feature in the UK rather than comply with demands for access to encrypted customer data from the UK government. Does that mean that instead of UK government accessing the data (through a backdoor), UK government can now access to data (because it's not encrypted at all)?
Oura doesn't even have GPS does it? Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant
> AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant Source for this? Was it big news? First I've heard of it.
Why do you think she had a personally owned email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party?
Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is simply considered "abandoned" under that law and can be read without any judicial oversight, no warrant needed. Major services even have portals for law enforcement to just browse away
Congress purposely never updates the law, it's 40 years out of date
Oura doesn't even have GPS does it? Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant
They can read all your emails that are over 6 months old? What are you basing this on? First I've heard of it.
Why do you think she had a personal email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party?
Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is cleverly considered "abandoned" under that law and can be read without any judicial oversight, no warrant needed. Major services even have portals for law enforcement to just browse away
Congress purposely never updates the law, it's 40 years out of date despite people having years of email, SMS, DMs in their accounts as typical behavior
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> AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant Source for this? Was it big news? First I've heard of it.
This is well known, just no-one talks about it anymore like NSA, DHS violations, etc. Why do you think she had a personally owned email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party? Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv... Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is simply considered…
Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act which also had problems but which didn't change this specific legal norm.