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Ha! I have a fun one. We recently had our first child. I finally opened a thermometer we were gifted from a shower and low and behold, the thing can not take a
by nop_slide 5y ago
Ha! I have a fun one.
We recently had our first child. I finally opened a thermometer we were gifted from a shower and low and behold, the thing can not take a temperature without downloading an app. It has a digital screen and everything, but you when you first power it on you are greeted with it displaying "APP" and you HAVE to download the app & set it up before it will work.
When we finally took the temperature, the damn thing still didn't even display it on the screen, it sent the reading to the app. I don't even know what the point of the screen is.
This thing also wants to "anonymously" share your temp readings and location with the community stating it will help and let you know if there are diseases spreading locally.
It went against my dignity to download it and use the thing, but it was 10:00PM and checking our baby's temp at the time was more important.
Still it was the most asinine smart-device experience I have had to date.
- smarnach 5y agoThe screen exists so the thermometer can tell you to download the app.
- esperent 5y agoThe app exists so that your data, and your baby's, can be harvested and sold.
- lmkg 5y agoPROTIP: This data is not protected by HIPAA because your insurance wasn't involved.
- bpodgursky 5y agoPROTIP: Do not get your data governance advice from HN comments
- tzs 5y agoIn this case though he was probably right about the data not being covered by HIPAA, but the reason he gave was incomplete. Here's a pretty good explanation of HIPAA in the context of health apps [1]. [1] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-health-app-developer-scenarios-2-2016.pdf https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-health-app-devel...
- slim 5y agothis shit was started by Apple. in 2010 I got an ipod. I opened the box and it would not work. it asked for itunes.