Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data

Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:47AM (#17917385)

If used by researchers, for research. Not sitting in vaults of private companies, doing God knows what. I don't even know what they need that data for.

Sure, now that's there, it could be useful. But why can't we ever go about collecting such data the right way? Opt-in, and for the right purpose?

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Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by asdkhadsj on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:46AM (#17918437)

> If used by researchers, for research.

Sure, but that's application. Great things usually can do terrible things depending on application.

At some point we have to take a leap of faith and acknowledge that some things, like heart data ingestion, is an amazing advancement for humanity. Lets not try and stop it, lets try to move it in the right direction. Ie, not private, etc.

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Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:01AM (#17918592)

I can imagine potential good uses. I just don't trust this particular actor.

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