Oura says it gets government demands for user data

Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by focusgroup0 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @11:15AM (#48248402)

guy who pays $6/month to be monitored by the f3ds

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by MassPikeMike on Saturday May 23, 2026 @11:49AM (#48248666)

Judging by ads for cell phone service, most people pay more than that per month to be monitored by the Feds.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by mathgeek on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:03PM (#48248783)

Judging by various leaks over the years, you get it for free anyway.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by Cider9986 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:21PM (#48248932)

Cell phone services don't record your heart rate.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by autoexec on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:50PM (#48249626)

I wouldn't be surprised if they could. Probably not while it's in your pocket though. They're packed with sensors that can pick up a lot. Just putting a phone on a table with a keyboard on it is enough for it to be able read your keystrokes. They can certainly tell when you're doing something that should be raising your heart rate.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by reaperducer on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:03PM (#48249753)

Cell phone services don't record your heart rate.

As has been noted on HN several times, there are cars that monitor when you have sex in them. You might be surprised what is known and by whom.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by Cider9986 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:18PM (#48249875)

> As has been noted on HN several times, there are cars that monitor when you have sex in them. You might be surprised what is known and by whom.

There is no proof they actually have that capability, it is just mentioned in their privacy policy.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by NoImmatureAdHom on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:38PM (#48250076)

It is an interesting juncture that we have come to

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by mh- on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:13PM (#48249826)

I'm not sure what to search to find the stories you're referring to, but the obvious ones didn't cut it.. at the expense of my browser history.

Can you share some links?

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by al_borland on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:21PM (#48249907)

They may be referring to this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968252

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by mh- on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:26PM (#48249957)

That sounds more like "legal asked for list of everything we collect, and anything we could collect by accident or inference" - and it leading to hilarious results - which I have seen firsthand before.

We own a Kia. I'd offer to do a GDPR data request, but my data would not give us any useful signal here lol.

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Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data by mannanj on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:33PM (#48250618)

I like paying $100/month to be monitored by the f3ds to Claude or Open(Closed)AI, or in some cases Max Premium subscriptions of $200/month.

But oh don't worry, since they are selling the tokens at a loss, this data sale doesn't matter.

My non-training data should be such that I pay them to extract it from me.

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