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I don't understand why anyone would let these psychopathic corporations have any of their personal or health data. Why would you use an app that tracked health data, or use a wearable device from any of these companies that did that. You have to assume, based on their past behavior, that they are logging every detail and it's going to be sold and saved in perpetuity.

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I guess because people want to track some things about their health, and people provide good pieces of software with a simple UI to do it, and this is more useful that, say, writing it down in a notebook, or in a text file or notes app.

I guess also people feel that corporations _shouldn't_ be allowed to do bad things with it.

Sadly, we already know with experience in the last 20 years, that many people don't care about what information they give to large corporations.

However, I do see more and more people increasingly concerned about their data. They are still mainly people involved in tech or related disciplines, but this is how things start.

Well maybe one reason this is hard to understand is that the plaintiff in this case hasn’t been harmed in any way. I suppose you could also argue, why would anyone go outside, there are literally satellites in space that image your every move in control of psychopathic corporations, logging every detail which they sell and save in perpetuity.

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