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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.

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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.

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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.
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