If they were interested in my location they could request location data. What are the odds they are doing this to directly market products to people based on health data?

Inb4 “They already do that based on what you regularly purchase”

Of course, yes they do. This appears to be one more layer on top of it. And surely they wouldn’t share that information with the pharmacy, right?

  • DonutEnglish
    133·
    6 months ago

    This is specifically the permission to track your movement, not your BMI or other health data. It’s to turn your iPhone into a step counter. Probably something they use when you are in the store to help you find items?

    Weird how everyone is being upset at this and didn’t check what this permission does before piling on.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      The walmart app does this. If im in a store and want to find what isle it’s in, I’ll pull it up, and it’ll know what store I’m in.

    • skizzles@lemmy.ml
      21·
      6 months ago

      Because people need something to be enraged about 24/7. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t plenty out there to be frustrated or upset about, but it’s just one more thing to add to the pile.

      Also, fact checking. Nah let’s just scream into the void about stuff we know nothing about nor can we be bothered to actually check what is happening.

    • whocares314@lemmy.worldOP
      32·
      6 months ago

      This comment feels pretty derogatory to me. We know that, and if you had bothered to read the thread before coming in and making assumptions you’d have seen that. You’re missing the point. An enormous amount of information can be inferred by knowing your activity and fitness levels. This guy is on his feet 14 hours a day? Here’s a coupon for some shoe inserts. This guy spent 5 minutes pacing back and forth down the candy isle and didn’t buy anything? We need to give him a nudge to make that purchase. This person does yoga every morning and only buys organic produce? Well, they probably don’t shop at Jewel honestly but hey did you know we carry aluminum free deodorant in the health department? Your motion and fitness data can absolutely be used to infer a general level of healthiness, which is often times (and often incorrectly) also summarized as your BMI.

      It was also wisely mentioned elsewhere in the thread that targeting advertising is only the tip of the iceberg as far as what can be done with the profiles these companies build about us. But none of that exactly fits very well into a title for a post.

      • DonutEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        An enormous amount of information can be inferred by knowing your activity and fitness levels.

        No, it’s just step count and elevation, to provide more accurate details about your workout.

        So you’re making shit up to be upset about and can’t even be bothered to look up what it means, but the real problem is me being derogatory. Got it.