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Between this, and Peloton and eBay doing portscans of your network, anyone who made fun of people for tech paranoia should be feeling pretty ashamed of themsel

by tata71 5y ago

Between this, and Peloton and eBay doing portscans of your network, anyone who made fun of people for tech paranoia should be feeling pretty ashamed of themselves right about now for what we've allowed to become commonplace, while simultaneously acknowledging it's only enabled by society ghosting its responsibility to learn tech.

csdvrx 5y ago
I can't remember exactly which smart device it was, but I think it was my Wyze Watch that asked for wayyyyyy too much information during setup. Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job? I got you to 1) show the time 2) have alarms that I can set without using the phone, like in bed 3) monitor my sleep 4) check my heartrate and saturation when I exercise. There's literally 0 reason to have my birthday, so I went by january 1st :) But it shouldn't even have been asked in the 1st place. > what we've allowed to become commonplace We should not allow it anymore. A smart device that insist on having an app on a phone to be usable won't get my $$$.
- toper-centage 5y ago
  Age, sex, size and weight are needed to accurately count calories. Now, whether you should sacrifice your private data for some slight extra accuracy in counting calories, thst another story.
  - josephcsible 5y ago
    To be clear, they're needed to accurately count calories out. You can count calories in perfectly accurately without them.
  - limitedmage 5y ago
    Heart rate levels during exercise also depend on age and sex (among other things). This is how you can get heart rate zones to know how intense your exercise is.
- SR2Z 5y ago
  > Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job? Come on. Every single one of those is an input for modelling calorie burn. If you don't want your watch to try and estimate that, that's fine - but it's pretty obvious why a fitness tracker would have those features.

by tata71 5y ago

csdvrx 5y ago

I can't remember exactly which smart device it was, but I think it was my Wyze Watch that asked for wayyyyyy too much information during setup. Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job? I got you to 1) show the time 2) have alarms that I can set without using the phone, like in bed 3) monitor my sleep 4) check my heartrate and saturation when I exercise. There's literally 0 reason to have my birthday, so I went by january 1st :) But it shouldn't even have been asked in the 1st place. > what we've allowed to become commonplace We should not allow it anymore. A smart device that insist on having an app on a phone to be usable won't get my $$$.

toper-centage 5y ago
Age, sex, size and weight are needed to accurately count calories. Now, whether you should sacrifice your private data for some slight extra accuracy in counting calories, thst another story.
- josephcsible 5y ago
  To be clear, they're needed to accurately count calories out. You can count calories in perfectly accurately without them.
- limitedmage 5y ago
  Heart rate levels during exercise also depend on age and sex (among other things). This is how you can get heart rate zones to know how intense your exercise is.
SR2Z 5y ago
> Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job? Come on. Every single one of those is an input for modelling calorie burn. If you don't want your watch to try and estimate that, that's fine - but it's pretty obvious why a fitness tracker would have those features.