Knowing that your lenses peep
I bought a smart watch a couple of months back after my Fitbit Charge just randomly stopped working. Before the Fitbit I had an unbranded £25 smart watch which connected to some free app from the Play store which served its purpose in a mediocre fashion until the app updated and became unsuitable for my needs
After a bit of research I bought an Amazfit Active 2 which seems to be a lot of watch for the price (just over £100). The name Amazfit suggests that it's an Amazon brand, but it's actually a Chinese company with a range of smart watches. The watch connects to my phone by the "Zepp" app which is quite detailed in the stuff it measures.
Initially I was a bit unsure about installing a weirdly named Chinese app on my phone, I mean Chairman Mao could be using it to spy on me, after all. But then I thought about the Fitbit. Google own Fitbit. Google rinse nearly every online person for every byte of personal information that they then use to track us and sell us stuff online, amongst other things.
So what's the difference between giving my unfitness and inactivity reports to Google and giving them to some unknown Chinese operation?
None. There's none difference. The difference is that we are meant to perceive Google and the USA as friendly, benevolent entities; whereas those Chinese lads are supposedly shady and shifty, a country we can only trust for 20 pence t-shirts and cheap replacement iPhone screens. A country that secretly spies on us thru their reasonably priced mid range mobile phone handsets (unlike Google that actively spies on us through our phone's operating system - but that's ok cuz 'Merika).
So I guess that it's Sinophobia - fear of the Chinese and the Chinese government. But the US government is no more friendly to us than their Far Eastern counterparts, the leader has made many actively hostile comments about Europe.
I dunno. What's the right answer? What's the right position to take here?
Oh, must dash. My watch just informed me it's time for a walk.