Watches and Privacy

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Donald Wickelgren

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Jun 18, 2021

Security

For all the benefits that will come from the wider use of watches, we need to heed the lessons we are still learning about giving away a piece of ourselves. I'm talking about privacy.

We've learned that nothing is free, and paying for our privacy has consequences. Now the most egregious abuse of privacy wants to go into watches, Facebook. It's for the data, your data.

Reference: https://gizmodo.com/i-would-rather-die-than-let-facebook-monitor-my-heart-r-1847065620

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Donald Wickelgren

Don Wicklegren is Xilium's founder. He is a technologist by profession who started his career pre-internet in remote medical technology and learning. He has worked in both small and large corporations with world-wide remote staff and became a part of the team who developed the first commercial internet. As an entrepreneur, he started his first technology company in 2001. In Xilium, he focuses on innovating solutions for the US healthcare system.

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