Half a million American households are having their fever data uploaded and sold to advertisers, integrated into databases, and who-knows-what and I bet almost very few them either realize what is happening or potential implications. Nobody is looking out for people.
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Lack of sensible data policies, protections and technologies is also suppressing innovation and great uses. What a ridiculous, terrible state of affairs.
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what are a few of the terrible uses?
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Another reason to not buy internet-based products: I bought a smart pet feeder and when the company went out of business, the feeder became useless without a website to link to.
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There is no need for much of this internet-connected stuff. I refuse to have it in my house.
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Unfortunately, in some areas there are no longer "non-internet-connected versions" :(
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Also stay on Facebook
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Another alternative - fail to connect it to the internet, people should have secure non-open wifi anyway.
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I usually hijack their DNS destinations and redirect it to a local server, where I reimplement the service locally.
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The most obvious one is of course healthcare insurance no longer advertising to heavy users of this application
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