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Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/
37•donohoe•1h ago

Comments

mystraline•33m ago
I was definitely interested in some sort of comprehensive sensor bundle for my healthcare.

But every one of these devices demands some Android/Apple app, and shipping all my health data to basically non-HIPAA data brokers.

Id be all over a local-only no-data-exfiltration health tracker. But the companies do NOT want to provide that.

I, uh, guess, "go surveillance capitalism", for more choices?

Aldipower•22m ago
I am using Withings in combination Tredict. Both GDPR-compliant.
sz4kerto•32m ago
"In my previous blog, I revealed that Oura data is not end-to-end encrypted. That means that an Oura user's health data can be unscrambled at certain points as it travels from a person's ring, through their phone app, over the internet, and as it lands on Oura's servers."

Very strange -- it seems to be conflating end-to-end encryption with encryption-in-transit.

ggm•23m ago
It also doesn't sound like its encrypted at rest. Perhaps each in-transit is held to be a unique e2e IP exchange?
juggle-anyhow•16m ago
Encrypted at rest means something different. It means if you pull the hard drive out no one can decrypt it. Not that it is encrypted in the database.
basisword•23m ago
This is why although I don't love my Apple Watch, I'm not using anything else. It's very sensitive data and Apple is the only company worth trusting with it. They're not perfect but compared to others there's no competition.
jeroenhd•17m ago
Google's Health Connect system doesn't share this data either (without a consent prompt for third party apps, off course). This is to the point where I wish it would just support some kind of sync, because two devices hooked up to the same accounts need a third party app to transfer the health info.

Apple is subject to the same laws Oura is. The competition is too.

SoftTalker•6m ago
Apple might be pretty good now. There's no assurance they always will be.
focusgroup0•15m ago
guy who pays $6/month to be monitored by the f3ds
ck2•13m ago
Oura doesn't even have GPS does it?

Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant

AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant

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