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March 26th, 2022 
Awake Goy 
As we should know ‘smart’ watches have
been around for a while, where they have really been taken up by the
mainstream ‘consumers’ for over a decade now.
Their telemetrics have increased
significantly over the years, where now even some sensors are gaining
certification as medical tools.
Heart rate is child’s play now, where Sp02 (saturation of peripheral oxygen), ECG (electrocardiogram) and ‘body battery’ terms are becoming the new normal.
While one can obtain whatever
information one desires with regards to the functioning/accuracy of
smart watches from a plethora of successful reviewers on social
media, one of the most important aspects is (deliberately?) left out,
that being privacy.
It seems that they’re just corporate whores, sponsored by the corporations to spruik their wares, but that would just be a conspiracy theory, right?
While one can read the multinational’s ‘privacy policy’ when installing the companion app to their smart
watch, and be besotted by their terminology and (alleged) data privacy policy
all this is ‘smoke and mirrors’.
Do you know why?
They have your data, you are not in
control of it’s flow, and your personal information must be given in
the companion app before the smartwatch is usable to you, otherwise
you will not be able to see ‘your’ data, the data you
create/generate.
Can these corporations program the app
without obtaining your exact location or email address or phone
number?
Of course they can, but the don’t want
to, or have a secret agreement with agencies not to, as we now live
in a surveillance capitalism world within the 5eyes, 9eyes and 14eyes
countries.
As always the humble serf (en masse, of
course) can change the ways of corporations, but that would require a
little bit of work, and we know how lazy the serfs really are,
remembering that their silence is acquiescence.
One way to make that change is by quite
simply ‘voting’ with your wallet, i.e not purchasing the product that
the corporation ‘requires’ your data, and stating that to them.
Not all is lost though, as ‘hackers’ or
rather programmers have been looking into the ins and outs of smart
watches and have created apps that do not require the use of the
internet to use the smartwatch with your phone in order to access
that data that you create.
One such app that is open source which can function with a few brands is called
Gadgetbridge, which is only available for the Android operating
system smartphone.
We do not recommend the use of any Apple devices
if your privacy is a concern, irrespective of their marketing
jargon.
There are also other smart watch
manufacturers that have companion apps that can be used without a
login, but that’s a hit and miss scenario.
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