FoodLover

ppietra said:

Did anyone notice how they deceitfully play with words?
First they say they are tracking some Data - avoiding saying they are tracking people!
Then they try to seed confusion by saying "how we limit the use of this information if you don't turn on this setting", like if people choose the negative option ("not to track") Facebook will get information.

Well, I have a Galaxy Phone and no Facebook. So FB cannot track where I am. It can just collect data on the owner.

But when I am with iPhone users within the same network, all iPhone users are constantly sharing my location with Apple. Apple knows exactly who is in the same location with whom, independent of whether the others have an iPhone or not.

 https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/new-study-raises-fresh-privacy-concerns-about-apple-and-google-mobile-phones/

 Apple not only collects data about handset activity, but also about handsets nearby. When you use WiFi, the WiFi MAC addresses of other devices on the network are sent to Apple.  When the location toggle is enabled on the handset then the precise GPS location is also included. The WiFi MAC address identifies a device on a WiFi network and so, for example, uniquely identifies your home router, cafe hotspot or office network.  That means Apple can potentially track which people you are near to, as well as when and where. That’s very concerning.

Even Google doesn’t do this. This is scaring. But Apple fans always believe Apple is the good guy. Read the complete study. Apple and Google collect both data, but what Apple does, does nobody else.

rob53 said:

Why? Why all of a sudden is Google portrayed as a good guy? Does Google own rights to all photos stored on Google servers? Thought I read that some place. I believe Facebook does. Is Apple being pressured to do this?

Apple slowly seems to feel the heat from users and start to understand that the strategy of making users’ live hard to switch to other platforms or even to use other platforms in parallel would be ended by a judge/by lawmakers rather sooner than later.

Andrew_OSU said:

FoodLover said:

Andrew_OSU said:

I’ll admit right up front that I know absolutely nothing about blood pressure but quite a bit about blood glucose levels. From my very limited understanding of blood pressure, you’d need some additional sensors for that to work. Most right now use that cuff that goes fully around your arm and certainly doesn’t work on the wrist. So, just as with the BG, it would have to be a whole new way of measuring it without having anything go around your wrist. Very curious what is being done in that space.

A Galaxy Watch 3 would measure your blood pressure on the wrist if you were in South Korea or Australia (I don't know where else it has been certified already).  

Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, Samsung requires you to use a traditional cuff first before using that and it needs calibrated on a regular basis. That’d be a non-starter for Apple. Apple’s approach of integrating with existing cuffs seems like a better solution and one that is more accurate.

On Samsungs homepage it says

"It requires a one-time calibration when using the app for the first time."

https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/measure-bp-on-samsung-watch/

 Not sure whether you have a blood pressure problem yourself. I have one and this is what I've been doing for years.

• Putting on the cuf every day at least once and measure my blood pressure.
• I take it also on my travels (well since COVID I haven’t had any, but this will change soon)

With Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 or Watch Active 2 I would calibrate it only once. That’s it. For me and many other people this would be the perfect solution. I don’t know how “Apple’s approach of integrating with existing cuffs seems” would be better. Even if I had to calibrate it once per month, it would be a huge improvement, but again only once is sufficient.

The reason why I hadn’t buy it yet was that it was not certified in EU and therefore not available. But this changed today. According to Sammobile

“Samsung announced today that it’s expanding the blood pressure and ECG tracking features of the Galaxy Watch 3 and the Galaxy Watch Active 2 to 31 more countries.“

Andrew_OSU said:

I’ll admit right up front that I know absolutely nothing about blood pressure but quite a bit about blood glucose levels. From my very limited understanding of blood pressure, you’d need some additional sensors for that to work. Most right now use that cuff that goes fully around your arm and certainly doesn’t work on the wrist. So, just as with the BG, it would have to be a whole new way of measuring it without having anything go around your wrist. Very curious what is being done in that space.

robin huber said:

Can devices like this be used surreptitiously to track someone’s car?

Yes. This is an evil technology. I love the idea and hate at the same time that it became reality.

 How it works?

• I have registered my Galaxy Buds Live in the SmartThings App and opted in for the respective service
• Let us assume my wife would opt in for the service as well
• I could throw the Buds into her car
• She would now drive to anywhere in the city
• She herself would not be able to ask the service where the Buds are located because they belong to me
• But I could ask the service for the location although she would be driving them around

This technology is a dream for all agencies around the world: people spying on others without knowing it.

Once the UWB version with longer lasting batteries became available, it would become a nightmare.

And now imagine RFID-based trackers in the probably not too distance future: a horror scenario (which will become reality).