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Re:My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Ro... by sshine on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:10PM (#31901522)
> I wonder why this data can't just be stored locally on the device?

Period trackers can achieve better prediction by training a model on massive data.

Fitness trackers in general have all sorts of reason to upload data.

The most legitimate reasons are that the dashboards and backups are online.

Fundamentally, the predominant business model is to take people's data as payment.

This continues to be the norm that numbs people into giving it without question or concern.

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How accurate would Apple or Facebook be at predicting someone's period without asking?

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Re:My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Ro... by danuker on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:14PM (#31901569)
> the dashboards

This is what I call a Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

Volunteers reverse-engineered Bluetooth scales and created all the dashboard you could ever want, and it can export CSV. A company can make the app have a dashboard.

Rather than let unnamed third parties target ads through my weight, I would have returned my scale had this not existed:

https://github.com/oliexdev/openScale

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