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Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI (www.neowin.net)

submitted 6 days ago by Moovau@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This isn't that. People are paying for devices with promised feature sets that have now had their terms changed.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

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.