- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
You must log in or # to comment.
Hardly surprising since they were acquired by Google.
If a given form of data sharing is illegal, then you shouldn’t be able to consent to it, especially now that we have awareness of dark patterns used to pressure people to consent to surrender their rights away.
The same reason a click-wrap TOS cannot be binding (as of 2020, I think) because it’s too easy to run a contract by customer the length of Richard III and the end user give up and click without reading (or comprehending).
And this is why I refuse to buy devices that depend on “the cloud” to essentially work at all. Getting harder though…
deleted by creator
Pinetime isn’t the most robust of smartwatches, but I would say it fits the bill.
I have one. It does the bare minimum (show time, count steps, show notifications), everything else doesn’t work very well, including the heart monitor. But the battery lasts for almost a month. And it’s completely offline, no cloud services. I would still recommend it.
deleted by creator
Apple is generally really good with privacy stuff. The health data stays on device unless you enable iCloud backup/sync. You can choose what app (if any) you’d like to share which part of your health data with (at which point you’re beholden by those app’s workflows and privacy policies). You can read directly from Apple here.
But the limiting factor is that you’d need to buy in to the rest of the ecosystem… or at least an iPhone. Not an issue for me, but YMMV depending on personal preferences.
deleted by creator
Also consider looking into Gadgetbridge and the list of devices it supports!
deleted by creator
