[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
Very strange -- it seems to be conflating end-to-end encryption with encryption-in-transit.
Apple is subject to the same laws Oura is. The competition is too.
All it takes is a political sea change for E2EE to go away.
Apple already has to hand over a wealth of information when asked by the feds.
Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant
AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant
But every one of these devices demands some Android/Apple app, and shipping all my health data to basically non-HIPAA data brokers.
Id be all over a local-only no-data-exfiltration health tracker. But the companies do NOT want to provide that.
I, uh, guess, "go surveillance capitalism", for more choices?
In overly simple terms, if insurance is not involved, then it’s not subject to HIPAA.