Don’t tempt me with a good time.
Right? If Apple would do that to me I’ll drop them like a hot potato
Sounds ok to me, it’s usually very hard to get data like that deleted. Best to not let them get it in the first place.
I have a Samsung phone and I take great pleasure in ignoring the weekly reminders that I still haven’t agreed to their latest privacy policy (or any previous version since the very first one which I was forced to accept while setting up the phone). Refusing to do this probably doesn’t accomplish anything, but it’s my own private act of rebellion while I eagerly await those new Motorola phones with first-party Graphene OS support.
i hope they are available in my region. it’d be nice to have when planned obsolescence takes mine.
>The company plans to grab four categories: your sleep, your medications, your medical records, and your cycle tracking details. The company also said that humans (maybe Samsung employees and third-party contractors) will be able to review some of the data collected.
For your own sake… let them*
^* delete the data that is.^
One just never hears anything good about Samsung anymore.
So I can tell them to not use my data, and they’ll also delete it as a bonus?
Now I wish I’d ever given them any health data, just so I could do this.
Probably they’ll keep it, they’ll just delete your access to it.
Well at least they’re giving people the option. Most other companies just declare they’re giving themselves permission to use your data unless you opt-out (meaning if you’ve lost access to the account you’ve got no way to stop them)
If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.
This isn’t that. People are paying for devices with promised feature sets that have now had their terms changed.
When I looked into it, the health related smartwatch features that were sold specifically said that they required you to use use, and agree to the terms of service (which says they can cancel the service at any time) of, their specific apps or devices and that the data provided to these services were theirs to do with as they please.
I thought that was a terrible deal so I didn’t buy one.
There are smartwatches that let you keep your data, but they require a lot more work to use.
Pebble are pretty good.
They don’t require any work to use, have a battery life measured in weeks, not hours, keep all your health data local unless you very specifically set it up to send it to a health app, and are open source and reasonably priced.
Not an advertisement. It’s still a US company, but compared with something like a Samsung thing they’re pretty cool.
Why would any sane person even use this kind of feature? It’s not even that useful :/.
It’s the kind of thing people think they needed, when actually they dont… Who the fuck needs to know how many steps you did this afternoon? Or how “good” you slept yesterday? How many calories your ate this morning…?
I haven’t seen a single good use case of this kind of tracking device, except for your insurance/bank…
I use a Garmin watch to track my heart rate and variability, but I have a heart condition, so yeah. I agree with everything else though. “High stress detected” yeah, no shit.
