• Guidy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.

    He can fuck off.

    If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.

    Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)

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    6 months ago

    Every time I see this Nazi Aristocrat, I am reminded that I have to sharpen my guillotine.

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    Mandating Americans use ‘wearables’ for health reasons thats coming from the same party that, when asked to wear a mask during a worldwide pandemic for the public health decried government overreach, claiming it was like living in nazi germany, and even discredited Fauci over his very true claims of wearing masks helping to save lives. I truly cant wait to see what that side has to say about Junior here, gotta keep that same energy right??

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      Those who are not infected with worms or eggs, must be identified -rfk jr

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    to do what with? unless you’re going to also increase grants to nih studies for wearable devices to study and improve something involving the health system, what is the benefit besides making apple richer?

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    “Wearables” but they forget to mention it’s about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
    They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.

    Ofcourse it’s also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.

    The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup … and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.

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    As a non American, even I can see this is just a scam to further invade privacy and the data used to get increase health insurance costs

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    6 months ago

    No fucking way.

    You can’t pay me to wear anything on my wrist even without the government spying. And no way in hell would I trust anything this administration recommends.

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    Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.

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      Vitals? You mean location. They don’t give a rat’s ass about your vitals.

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        They’ll have a lot of fun correlating your media consumption and your vitals to know exactly what you like and dislike, especially about politics. Then they know who to target for layoffs, arrest and/or deportation.

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        False. All data has value. Vitals can 100% be used to sell targeted ads for pharmacuticals, supplements, lifestyle brands, gyms, and more. Also if it has a microphone it’s listening to everything.

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          Not to mention your general health status to insurance companies. Bad health score? Worse insurance deal

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          What types of data does the US sell to advertisers? Do you have ANY evidence of the always listening mic? You’d figure after 10 years of this we’d have at least some evidence, right?

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            What types of data does the US sell to advertisers?

            Types you haven’t even thought of. Every type of data is sold, and then derivatives of data are sold. Directly collected data, inferred data, guesses, it’s all packaged up.

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            I don’t know if the USA currently sells data. It appears to be illegal but the current administration doesn’t always play by the rules.

            Have you ever used a phrase activated voice assistant (hey Google, Alexa, Siri). They are always listening in case you use the phrase. Amazon and Google both admit they record and stores voice data. Google sells ads based on search history.

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              So they aren’t, and the devices work exactly as expected by the public. I’m not shocked.