Wearable Fitness Devices Let Others Monitor Your Sex Life

Problem - device monitors your activity while being worn.<p>Solution - take it off.

I have a Basis B1 band that I&#x27;ve been using on and off since launch. The one thing it is really poor at is capturing heart rate information and other metrics during periods of heavy activity. If you are working out or performing an intense activity, the device frequently dismisses the activity as noise for one and stops capturing the data. e.g. when my heart&#x27;s pounding after a heavy lift or a sprint and is ready to pop out, the Basis band either stops recording or shows my heart rate that&#x27;s no where close to true. I&#x27;ve exchanged emails with them in the past about their algorithms dismissing such activity as noise but they&#x27;ve maintained that they cannot discuss the algorithms they use to calculate the metrics and it&#x27;s not a device to be used for such purposes; it&#x27;s more about giving you a rough estimate as you carry on your day to day life.<p>As far as sudden heart rate increases during the night, you could possibly co-relate it to your dreaming; I woke up sweaty once after having a nightmare and my skin temperature &amp; heart rate #s were definitely skewed by a good margin as compared to a normal night of sleep.

How does an accelerometer tell someone looking at the data whether or not the wearer had an orgasm? This piece seems more designed to cause outrage than to actually inform anyone of the risks of sharing data.<p>Also, unless the device is capturing all the CO2 you exhale (or you live inside a calorimeter), it doesn&#x27;t know how many calories you burned.

Stop the press. Device designed to record all of your behavior reveals what you are doing all the time.

The solution of course is you buy it, you own it, you control it.<p>I made one of those my own, they are very simple to make, with an microarduino to store data.<p>It is very useful to me, but I won&#x27;t give the data to any external person-entity.<p>PS:I can&#x27;t understand connecting it to the cloud like some people do.

This is an old problem.<p>Cameras also let others monitor your sex life.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s only true if you take pictures while you are having sex and then share those pictures with others... just like with wearable fitness devices.

I suppose pimps are a target customer. To keep an eye on the workforce and all.

24&#x2F;7 real-time monitoring is the very definition of distrust...<p>Do people actually wear these things while sleeping, though? How do you charge the battery, then?

Why would anyone share his health data with other people?

The solution is to have all your sex in the shower.

My girlfriend and I (who each have Fitbits) have joked around several times about the potential for Fitbit to be able to track sex. And now, someone&#x27;s doing just that.

Wasn&#x27;t Fitbit hit by this issue shortly after the launch few year ago? You&#x27;d think others would&#x27;ve learned from that unfortunate incident.

&gt; Wearable Fitness Devices Let Others Monitor your lack of sex life.<p>FTFY

Maybe they&#x27;ll start building these into our mandatory Malthusian belts.

Or you could... just take it off at night &#x2F; whenever is convenient?

there is nothing like &quot;Monitor Your Sex Life&quot; its another health monitoring device.

I don&#x27;t think that is going to be much of a problem for THIS audience :D