> the once-responsive Oura has not yet replied to any of my inquiries, or committed to releasing the numbers

Illinois has a tight biometric-privacy law [1]. I’d bet Oura isn’t particularly careful about prohibiting e.g. a Texas police department querying the protected information of Illinois residents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...

"In my previous blog, I revealed that Oura data is not end-to-end encrypted. That means that an Oura user's health data can be unscrambled at certain points as it travels from a person's ring, through their phone app, over the internet, and as it lands on Oura's servers."

Very strange -- it seems to be conflating end-to-end encryption with encryption-in-transit.

guy who pays $6/month to be monitored by the f3ds

What will the government even do with my heart rate and blood oxygen data?

"Mr Smith has been running again, we better bring him in for questioning!"

This is why although I don't love my Apple Watch, I'm not using anything else. It's very sensitive data and Apple is the only company worth trusting with it. They're not perfect but compared to others there's no competition.

IPOing soon at $11B btw

All this said I'm more concerned about Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) on smartTV you buy in the store and never even realize it's phoning home with everything you watch...

Oura doesn't even have GPS does it?

Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant

AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant

OURA is a joke. My GF bought two for us and after a week I made her return them due to non stop dark patterns coming out of that company.

Everything about that company is disgusting.

Such a shame, too. I was eager to learn more about my health.

I was definitely interested in some sort of comprehensive sensor bundle for my healthcare.

But every one of these devices demands some Android/Apple app, and shipping all my health data to basically non-HIPAA data brokers.

Id be all over a local-only no-data-exfiltration health tracker. But the companies do NOT want to provide that.

I, uh, guess, "go surveillance capitalism", for more choices?