“Attorney General George Jepsen has concerns about how the new Apple Watch will protect consumer privacy,” Bill Cummings reports for Hearst Media Services. “Jepsen on Monday sent a letter to Apple posing a serious of questions about the new product, noting news report indicate it can store, collect and use consumers’ health information.”
“‘I am encouraged by Apple’s representations that personal health information will be encrypted on the Apple Watch and that users will decide which applications gain access to their health data. However, as personal information will no doubt be collected and stored in some way, questions remain, and I look forward to the opportunity to have a discussion with Apple,’ he said,” Cummings reports. “In a letter sent to Apple’s chief executive officer, Tim Cook, Jepsen asked for a meeting with company representatives to address his questions about how personal consumer information collected through Apple Watch will be stored and safeguarded.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As 2014 is an election year for Connecticut Attorney General, George Jepsen is in the midst of a re-election campaign.
Would that Connecticut (and all) voters take note of such transparent, self-serving manipulators and send them off to fend for themselves in the real world for a change.
Is this guy running for something? “Apple. (Look at me!) Apple. (Look at me!)”
Another case of opening their mouth before doing ANY research.
Sounds like this guy talks without thinking first. 🙁
I have concerns about the incumbent New Jersey AG. 🙂
I have concerns about most lawyers.
The hubris of these characters!
Is Mr. Spacely his campaign manager?
Meet George Jepson
Jane, his wife;
His boy Elroi;
Daughter Judy
Astro. ASTRO!
As usual, greed for “Power & Position”!
It’s a taxes paid trip to California for him on top of bringing attention to him during campaigning.
Where were these politicians when google glass went on sale?
It wasn’t campaign season.
I’m hoping Apple’s reply is short and simple, something along the lines of – “We’ll get back to you after the election, IF you’re still Connecticut’s Attorney General … “
Here we have a product that is not released. Software is not fully defined. And we have a person like this making the comments that he does. Doesn’t he have better things to do?
I think he patonizes the same brothel as Spitzer and is hoping for similar fame and fortune.
If nobody stored health information, patients would have to rely on their memories to fill out a twenty page health information and history form every time they saw a doctor or nurse. We could keep it all on paper, but that can be stolen or illegally copied, too. I doubt that the Apple Watch or FitBit can be equipped with a printer.
Has this guy spoken out on the activities on the NSA? on the Department of Justice’s ‘parallel reconstructions?
I didn’t think so.
Why does he need a face to face meeting with an Apple representative ?
Any worthwhile security questions would be better dealt with in writing, but of course that doesn’t sit so well with being a self-publicising opportunist who thinks he has spotted an approaching bandwagon.
If he bothered looking at what Apple has already done with regards to security issues on the touch sensor and Apple Pay, then he might have been able to deduce that Apple does take security seriously in a way that goes far beyond what other manufacturers do.
good questions… why not ask them of target and home depot and …. and …. some of those big ass wall street banks that have gotten hacked.
what a tool.
Like everything else Apple is doing with their newest smartphones, all the data will likely be encrypted using the Secure Enclave on the AX processors. These people are sure publicity seekers always going after Apple.
How come only general public will concern about Google Glass privacy issue and not the US government and senators? Or have I missed those cases back here from Hong Kong.
And how come the US government and those school boards as well as the Dept of Justice always target Apple but not Google?
Is it because that Google has done way lots more of lobbying work? Thus the bias?
I have concerns about things I don’t understand. The Watch might be a super scanner of my brain and sell my thoughts to nefarious governments and terrorists! It might be alien technology and find a hole into my thoughts through my bloodstream and get under my tinfoil hat. Perhaps it will share how often I shake my hand up and down with people in the elevator.
As a politician, I know that Apple can’t be altruistic and good because everybody I know is twisted and dishonest( and I hang out with politicians and lobbyists). We have to bring Apple down because I know in my cold worm eaten heart that Apple can’t be making such great products without making a deal with the devil. I did.
Give the guy a break, he is only trying to get to the bottom of an important issue. Android health apps are frequently sending data to over 72 outside parties with no regulation over how it is used. Imagine if your employer or your heath insurer found out that you were fighting some condition or disease, through interpretation or misinterpretation of your data. this could be very costly. These questions should be asked and clarified. I, for one believe Tim Cook when he says that Apple is not in the business of collecting and selling your data like Google, but an assurance would be proper in light of what is at stake. As a Connecticut resident, I have the highest respect for Georg Jepsen who has a track record of fairness, transparency and intelligence, and I don’t feel this is just grandstanding.
Don’t worry, the MDN forum is notorious for leaping on anything that remotely resembles less than the perfect anarcho-syndaclist commune. 😆
Another politician trying to gain publicity on Apple’s coattails. Politicians are scum. All of them.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Any politician should be forced to look at the security holes in the ACA before looking at a private sector device which consumers actually have a choice to purchase or not to purchase.