[ABeeSea]

My cpap has a cell chip in it. Sends my sleep data to the company, my doctor, and insurance. It’s hipaa protected since it’s a medical device so I don’t worry about it. Would not be as ok with a random tech startup collecting the same data.

[lrvick]

It also sends your data to anyone that does not care about laws. Almost 0 companies have the in-house expertise to have a chance in hell at providing reasonable data security.

[callalex]

We could have that same level of data protection for everything, not just medical devices. There’s no fundamental reason not to.

[psd1]

Then your sanctity is legally protected, but endangered by incompetence and techno-resistant end-runs around security controls. Ask sysads: nurses and doctors are the fucking worst.

Legal requirement for a shitty company to safeguard your data is a poor alternative to the company never receiving your data.

This is why we put IoT bumbaaclaat on a first network and block outbound...