Did anyone else get recommended this Computerworld article and immediately start looking for the motive? Because I did.

What does the government get out of this push to put a smartwatch on every American? And more specifically, why does it want everyone’s fitness trackers to be able to share data?

Has the Assclown changed his mind and now thinks his victims should be “citizen-ready” for whatever role (tax cattle, menial labor, mercs) he sees fit to assign to us? (But that wouldn’t need interoperable data; that sounds more like the fedgov wants a searchable biometric database.)

Or is there a biometric tell for Latino ancestry that they can collate with all the other data they’ve been “sharing” with their ethnic-cleansing goon squads? (There isn’t such a tell that I know of, but (1) I’m not expert enough on the subject to rule it out and (2) the fools in fedgov might imagine there is.)

Or is this a back-door way to get location data on every American? (I found two “fitness” apps that track users’ precise locations, Google Fit and Strava, on page 1 of a quick search; my impression is that avoiding location tracking is a lot harder, if it’s even possible.)

Or is it something else that didn’t occur to me (or the average reader) in the first minute?

Meanwhile, the article itself is burbling happily along with Dr. Oz’s praise of “disruptive innovations” and the like, while framing the whole thing as good for Apple and Apple Watch users; when it eventually gets to the “concerning” impact on user privacy, it preemptively blames “the demands of corporate enterprise” for any harm done before moving on to fantasize about real-time pandemic tracking…

 

P.S. Tthe list of cooperating tech corps includes OpenAI and Anthropic, so pernicious data mining is a given even before we find out how the government plans to abuse all this biometric data.