Apple Watch faces potential import ban in the US | The International Trade Commission has found Apple in violation of a bloody oxygen tracking patent owned by Masimo.::Apple could be potentially facing an Apple Watch import ban in the US for infringing a blood oxygen tracking patent owned by Masimo.
Why would your watch need to measure your blood oxygen? It’s just a sophisticated data harvesting machine.
Like half the point of smartwatches is health vital tracking…. Blood oxygen is a major vital sign.
Why wouldn’t they measure your vitals compared to what content you’re looking at and sell that to data brokers, or even use it for their own AI training?
Because it’s all generated, encrypted, and stored on device.
Unless you have some evidence that they’re lying about out their data security, in which case you should probably sue about it and get rich as fuck.
What steps do you, personally, take to protect yourself against that from literally any device you use that has an internet connection?
I manually go through my computers and remove data harvesting bloatware with command prompt. I cover my cameras with tape when not in use. I use open source privacy focused applications. I drive an older car with no internet functionality. Bluetooth stays off 24/7. Phone (an older model) stays in airplane mode when not in use. All privacy settings are set to the best possible configurations. I avoid large chain stores that conduct heavy surveillance and shop locally instead. I use cash when possible.
I’m interested, what tips do you have to stay more digitally private?
Nobody cares except a few hardcore security zealots. It’s simply not consequential and having health data is far more important.
Boy oh boy I hope you didn’t post that from a mobile phone. It’ll blow your noodle to know what that harvests.
Why what do the GrapheneOS team harvest that I don’t already consent to by installing the OS?
Just… stop. Clearly 99% of all smart devices aren’t marketed to you. The rest of us will enjoy our devices and you can be that one guy in the corner of the room saying “they don’t know that I actually have privacy”
If you’re trying to be edgy, what if I told you there need to be features that would entice people to buy something in order to harvest data, and that pulse oximetry could be one of them without much hardware cost?