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"When you are exercising it can read your heartrate."

Why would you present a device that clearly looks like HAL 9000, integrates a very skynet-esque xbox live and choose to say it can read your heartbeat?

Wouldn't it be better to give the context as a choice? It comes across as telescreen that is taking your biometrics without permission. Why did they choose to take the creepy angle? What is wrong with these people?



They chose this angle because the number of people watching who care about the ethics of biometric data capture are basically a rounding error on a marketing spreadsheet.




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