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How does an accelerometer tell someone looking at the data whether or not the wearer had an orgasm? This piece seems more designed to cause outrage than to actually inform anyone of the risks of sharing data.

Also, unless the device is capturing all the CO2 you exhale (or you live inside a calorimeter), it doesn't know how many calories you burned.

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Basis has a heart rate monitor built in... that would give more information (not sure it could tell orgasm or not, unless there is some unique heart signature after orgasm...)

It might not be unique, but I imagine the timing of sudden heart-rate increases/decreases could be quite telling. It is probably unlikely that most people would go for a run at 2am for example.

well yeah, its the press :|

as if they ever wanted to inform people.

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