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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by Lev1a on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:44AM (#28482264)
> need to see that you use it for an average of 4 hours per night or whatever

That could just as easily be achieved by the method of locally recording on the SD card GP mentioned above without uploading who-knows-what about the device, your body, maybe even the surrounding area and other people to who-the-fuck-knows-where.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by margalabargala on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:17AM (#28482751)
This doesn't really solve anything.

It can equally easily be recording exactly all of that data into some encrypted format on the SD card, which then gets uploaded to the manufacturer when opened with the proprietary application necessary to view the data.

The only difference is the choice over exactly when the data is uploaded, which in the US with its insurance system, results in no choice at all.

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