Secondary Uses

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Wearable-device data and secondary commercial uses | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Wearables collect detailed health and activity data for useful features, making it important to distinguish the core service from any separate analytics, research, advertising, or data-sharing uses.

Data retention beyond the original reason for collection | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Data that was reasonable to collect for one task can become a different privacy problem when it is kept long after that task ends and later reused for unrelated purposes.