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>Moreover, as AnandTech points out, with the extra power and programmability on offer, in-ear headphones could also be used to track health data like temperatur
by cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
>Moreover, as AnandTech points out, with the extra power and programmability on offer, in-ear headphones could also be used to track health data like temperature, which can in turn feed into the growing array of fitness-tracking databases.
I'm glad that they're just straight up admitting that the reason that they're doing this is snooping. That's quite refreshing.
- wernercd 10y agoOne mans "Snooping" is another mans "breakout feature". I'd be interested in a set of headphones that do heartbeat tracking for when I run... I don't like wristbands and I haven't ever really been interested in watches. As with anything, it's a tool in the toolbox to be used for good or ill...
- cuckcuckspruce 10y agoHow long until this technology is used to get a discount on your insurance? How long after that until it's mandatory for insurance?
- wernercd 10y agoIt's amazing that you are here... in a Faraday cage behind 8 layers of tor on a secure linux cd distro... It's either that, or you should be farming cows with the Amish... because everything goes against this statement... How long until cash is removed so they can track you via credit cards? How long until the Insurance company requires your credit card receipts to show you've bought local farm grown and not McDonald's? How long until... You can take the "how long" excuse to extremes... Who knows where we will be in 5/10/100 years... Who knows what wouldn't happen if "but they might use it to spy on use!!!" blocked all forward progress...
- bolivier 10y agoWhy am I supposed to want to track my temperature? How could that benefit me? It's just data collection for the sake of data collection. Nobody is going to use the temperature data. It doesn't benefit anybody trying to snoop on you. It doesn't benefit you. It's just a stupid feature that you can throw in and market as "neat."