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You might not own the data of your air quality monitor

65 pointsby ahaucnxalmost 2 years ago

12 comments

JohnKemenyalmost 2 years ago
Under Norwegian law, data is not protected, hence it cannot be owned. If you have access to some data, by all means, it's "yours" (under Norwegian jurisdiction).
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WalterBrightalmost 2 years ago
I wonder how I ever got by with my thermometer and CO2 meter not connected to the intertoobs.
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Mayziealmost 2 years ago
I'd love to be able to purchase something like this and a weather station that will submit data to a free public service so people can receive better and more accurate / timely weather data. I can't tell if that is possible out of the box via AirGradient from this website (or if such a service even exists, as they only mention "24 months AirGradient data platform / map" which implies proprietary)? Do people know of a similar solution for a weather station?
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ahaucnxalmost 2 years ago
This topic is something that irked me for quite some time and I am looking forward to the discussion here.
speedgoosealmost 2 years ago
It smells like an abusive clause. I would be tempted to ignore it and never tell anyone if I had to collect data from those sensors. They would be named sensors from company &quot;A&quot; in the reports and papers.<p>But to do things in a pleasing way for legal people, how could we proceed ?
deeviantalmost 2 years ago
A more surprising title would be &quot;You might own the data of your air quality monitor.&quot;
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voytecalmost 2 years ago
A little off-topic but does anyone know of pressure sensors suitable for home-baked blood pressure monitor?<p>I&#x27;m planning to build a little Arduino- or raspi-based device to own the data. All I managed to find were (non-blood) pressure sensors and I&#x27;m unsure whether these could be used for blood pressure monitoring and how I&#x27;d place them against the hand to get readings of reasonable quality.<p>If this approach is a no-go, a ready device with some physical interface (and no &quot;cloud&quot;-related garbage) allowing readings would do.
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stuaxoalmost 2 years ago
This is why I didn&#x27;t plug in the BlueAir my gf kindly bought us.<p>People have figured out how to run them off raspberry pis since I believe though, so I should sort it out to run cloudless.
zarzavatalmost 2 years ago
The article is missing some details. It doesn’t say how you agree to the contract. I assume there’s some software you have to install to get data out of the device, and this term is in the EULA?<p>Is the software necessary to use the device - you could just not install it, or someone could write a third party driver that doesn’t make you agree to these terms.
javascript_obsoalmost 2 years ago
How do they protect from false data injection? Are the sensors cryptographically signing their data?<p>BTW are there any sensors that encrypt and sign data before sending out for real security? I am not able to construct such a device, so I hope anybody did already? preferably open hardware?
lagniappealmost 2 years ago
The people who buy smart devices likely don&#x27;t have this concern.
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elifalmost 2 years ago
why do i need to own it?<p>all i need to do is look at it occasionally
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