But it does this:
"On-body detection will get better the longer you have it enabled as it will continually collect data on your walking patterns."
So you eventually won't be able to hide your location or confuse the algos by trading phones with others.
If there is a change in your movement patterns they will diagnose you whether you like it or not. This is already in place as of January of this year. Dementia, aging, schizophrenia, depression, agitation. The list can be endless. Big medicine will love it because once diagnosed you will be forced to be treated. Current state of affairs is that new diagnostic methods detect Alzheimer's years before symptoms begin. Years. The patient protesting this diagnosis is meaningless. And you'd better get treated or you'll be costing everyone else money - it'll be your social duty.
Likewise for ADD, PTSD, and other psychiatric maladies. They are all being studied right now for correlations with movement, sentence construction complexity, spelling and syntax error freqyency, use of "angry" or violent words or concepts, and typing patterns. No one is protesting the huge potential for misuse of this highly invasive technology, nor its intense privacy invasiveness. Most people do not know this information is even being collected much less judged. Did you?
Small moves add up to huge consequences. Everyone I talk to says, what do I care? I'm not doing anything illegal! Hmmm. Its not about dealing drugs or hatching crimes. That's a red herring.
People forget the natural, adversarial nature of privacy. In general - each of us doesn't need privacy in order to hide illegal activity, because the vast majority of people don't carry out illegal actions (stealing office pens is not the issue!). You need your privacy to compete with others who want to take your resources, most definitely including government and businesses.
You. Need. It. Protect it. When its gone, its gone, baby.
