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SexualActivityRecord

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23 pointslopkeny12ko20 comments

Thanks for the chuckle.

Google Health privacy overview page: https://health.google/privacy/

Apple HealthKit privacy overview page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209519

Notably, Apple mentions that your health data is end-to-end encrypted as long as you have 2FA enabled on your iCloud account. I don't see any mention of Google offering the same, which is pretty surprising for something as sensitive as health data.

If anyone has looked into this more deeply and is more familiar with the privacy risks of recording this kind of data on either OS, I'd love to learn more.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/05/introducin...

"The data in Health Connect is all on-device and encrypted."

What? No boolean flag for Partner vs. No-Partner?

I am feeling very left out -- again. <s>

Boolean? I'd need an unsigned integer.

Coding in C, eh? Replacing false with 0 should do the trick.

I think the parent has a need to represent multiple partners.

Exactly. Not every sex act is conducted with 0 or 1 partners >:)

Though I'm not a parent, I use protection! :)

WTF (pun not intended) this is a joke?? Who wants to send their sexual activity to Google?

I mean I would hope this is even self declared and not some AI interpreting accelerometer and audio data or something.

Depends. How many steps would it add to my daily total?

Perhaps it’s for CarPlay integration? iirc cars record this data nowadays

Umm what?? Cars record sexual activities? What the actual fuck.

I'm glad I don't own a car. But what I do in it is my business.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...

Yup. I’ll keep taking public transport

> Nissan earned its second-to-last spot for collecting some of the creepiest categories of data we have ever seen. It’s worth reading the review in full, but you should know it includes your “sexual activity.” Not to be out done, Kia also mentions they can collect information about your “sex life” in their privacy policy. Oh, and six car companies say they can collect your “genetic information” or “genetic characteristics.” Yes, reading car privacy policies is a scary endeavor

- Mozilla Foundation

> Who wants to send their sexual activity to Google

Who wants to send anything to Google?

Does it count as a workout?

sigh

Here's the other one so we don't descend into brouhaha: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/hkcatego...

But doesn't admitting Apple cloned a Google product just increase the ambient field strength of the brouhaha? /s

I can't determine if your /s indicates you're joking about this specifically, but Apple Health/HealthKit has been around since 2014, whereas Google's Health Connect (the subject of this API) was introduced late 2022 and is still in beta.

Tbf, my /s are often multi-dimensional, so everyone in the audience can get a chuckle.

It seems Google Fit was a precursor to Health Connect and has been out since 2014 as well.

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