OneMoreLime
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And in the darkness it gives your biometrics to its creator to be “anonymized” and sold to data brokers to be sold to advertisers so they can use science to discriminate who and how they conduct their business…
Cast it into the fire!
BenderRodriguz1010
Zach387
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DotNot
While I can't really say whether Oura follows the rules it's still worth mentioning that it's a Finnish company bound by EU regulations. Which are a lot stricter than the US ones when it comes to personal information (like GDPR).
OneMoreLime
What happens if you get one and don’t notice the company has been acquired by google and the terms of service change after an update?
DotNot
Can't say for sure about the rest of the world, but here within EU nothing changes. The same privacy laws govern also non-EU corporations.
zackingsman
Thank god for actual first world countries like the European union! Also fuck the pretenders like the US and Russia
dasAchteck
Biometrics generally refers specifically to unique characteristics like retina or fingerprint scans, not just typical HR and movement data. Calm down.
OneMoreLime
Their words not mine
BrickShakes
It also refers to blood pressure, how much you're sweating and other bodily metrics. I assume it's those they measure with the ring.
dasAchteck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics unless those are used for identification, they don't apply to this term.
BrickShakes
Of course they do, it's not like if you don't use a fingerprint for other than fingerprinting it suddenly stops being a biometric, your blood pressure tells something about your body and can be used to identify maybe not you as an individual but something about your health and they more metrics you have the more you can tell.
BrickShakes
The CDC also call it a biometric https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/tools-resources/glossary/glossary.html
BrickShakes
Search under B for Biometric Screening and it's right there in the description "blood pressure"