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Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by sandworm101 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:04PM (#10795775)
Better question: Do you really want Apple monitoring what you do in the shower?

Siri: I noticed you spent an extra five minutes shaving yesterday and suspect your razor is a little dull. We sold that little factoid to Braun. Now every website in the world will be filled with their razor ads. Please do not disappoint. Braun is an important customer, unlike you.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by achompas on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:36PM (#10795875)
In what world is Apple, one of the strongest protectors of individual privacy in SV, concerned with how long you shave?
Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by sandworm101 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:52PM (#10795931)
A world where data tracking people's behaviour is useful to those wanting to sell them products. Is it really all that speculative to suggest that an apple algorithm (or google) might correlate persons who suddenly take a few extra minutes shaving with persons who in the next week will buy some shaving products?

Apple is a supporter of individual privacy, not group privacy. They have and use lots of behavioural data, anonymized and sorted, but data nevertheless.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by achompas on Saturday December 26, 2015 @09:32PM (#10796152)
> A world where data tracking people's behaviour is useful to those wanting to sell them products.

Like...Apple-branded shaving cream?

In all seriousness, this is not a situation Apple cares enough about to spend time parsing logs/activity streams.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by kalleboo on Saturday December 26, 2015 @10:11PM (#10796242)
Apple have made a point that a lot of their learning is done on the device itself - stuff like the keyboard and Google Now-esque "if you leave for home now it will take X hours" never leave the device as a conscious privacy decision even though it results in a slightly less intelligent product.
Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by Fiahil on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:39PM (#10795890)
Hi Siri,

I noticed you sound exactly like GLaDOS from Portal; is it on purpose? Please don't kill me.

Your friend.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by sdfnjdskjnfjkn on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:13PM (#10795805)
not really how apple operates
Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by dexwiz on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:41PM (#10795901)
Not at the moment, but it's coming. Also, it's rarely the manufacturers themselves that are selling the data, but applications installed/given access.

Google already can guess where I park my car and can provide me with relevant traffic data for my commute both to and from work without me having to ask for it.

With highly accurate GPS, and information about the user, you could probably guess what user's home layout looks like, and what they do in each room.

Got a heartbeat monitor on your wearable? Sleep in the same location every night? Haven't had an elevated heart rate in your bedroom for a month? Unmarried (because that's public record)? Time for ads targeted at lonely singles.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by kalleboo on Saturday December 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#10796248)
> Google already can guess where I park my car and can provide me with relevant traffic data for my commute both to and from work without me having to ask for it.

iOS 9 does that kind of stuff as well but when it was announced Apple made a point to emphasize that they've implemented it all on-device to protect privacy.

Selling ads is just not in Apple's DNA. Even iAds was a kind of a flop.

Re:Apple Watch owners use their nose to navigate the watch by officemonkey on Saturday December 26, 2015 @08:59PM (#10796077)
Who has sex wearing a watch?