• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Revelation 13:16-17 New International Version 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    Huh. No uproar from the people who believe in this shit? Weird.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    Follow the money. Nominee for surgeon general has a stake in wearable tech.

    Just like when those scatter machines were forced on the TSA, it’s because the person in charge had a stake in the company making them.

    My company gave these things away to each employee for some ‘fitness challenge’ between departments…I never even opened the package. My group was mad at me for not helping win the free lunch or whatever it was … Until I made them read the privacy policy. Many stopped wearing them immediately

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    7 days ago

    Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Mandating Americans use ‘wearables’ for health reasons thats coming from the same party that, when asked to wear a mask during a worldwide pandemic for the public health decried government overreach, claiming it was like living in nazi germany, and even discredited Fauci over his very true claims of wearing masks helping to save lives. I truly cant wait to see what that side has to say about Junior here, gotta keep that same energy right??

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Ok RFK. Let’s see you and all of Trump’s squad do it first, and make sure it’s public in realtime. I’d love to see timestamps each and every time he reads AOC tweets.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Thing is putting the horrific privacy concerns aside it’s not like it’s a bad idea from a health perspective. Everybody being simply more aware of the things their body is doing is immensely helpful on a societal scale.

    Problem is there aren’t any devices that are local only or otherwise truly private. Apple stores your data locally on your phone which is good, but there’s no guarantee it’ll always be that way.

    Pass a law that protects wearable health data under HIPAA and I’d consider it.

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      6 days ago

      HIPAA data is protected…until it isn’t. Laws change. Especially when companies are salavating to access health data.

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    6 days ago

    No fucking way.

    You can’t pay me to wear anything on my wrist even without the government spying. And no way in hell would I trust anything this administration recommends.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.