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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by gumby on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:24PM (#32813607)
Those watches measure the temperature at the underside of the device, i.e. the temperature of the wearer not the air. And that data they claim stays on your phone, not in their cloud.
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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by jamie_ca on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:56PM (#32815089)
They called out in the presentation that it's also got an ambient temperature sensor just underneath the display, to help calibrate body-temp vs room-temp for the overnight "difference from baseline" temperature measurements.

Agreed on the local-storage-for-health-data bit, but I'm sure they could argue that the ambient sensor isn't privacy-relevant.

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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by cookingrobot on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:58PM (#32816863)
The temperature inside a winter coat though, not outside in the freezing air right?
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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by aaomidi on Monday September 12, 2022 @03:02PM (#32815177)
It’s also very easily anonymizable
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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by nicce on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:40PM (#32816614)
They claimed that data is encrypted on device and Apple never sees it.
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Re:Apple’s next big thing: A business model change by anotherOneSound on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:42PM (#32813948)
why would THEY pay to store YOUR biometric data when YOU could store it for THEM!
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