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Samsung, LG Smartwatches Give Up Personal Data To Researchers
An anonymous reader sends word that security researchers have been able to extract personal information from a pair of smartwatches: the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear 2 Neo. The G Watch gave up calendar information, pedometer data, and the user's email address, while the Gear 2 Neo gave up health data, emails, messages, and contact information. The researchers said it wasn't very difficult to get the data, in part because it wasn't encrypted. "The Gear 2 Neo uses Samsung's Tizen operating system, while the LG G Watch is one of several models that uses Google's Android Wear operating system. The researchers obtained the data both by poking through the watches' files and finding traces of watch activity on the Samsung Android smartphone to which they were linked. The researchers also have begun testing the Apple Watch."
Does anyone actually buy them? I think a smart watch is redundant, until it entirely be able to replace a cell phone. To better understand the market I did some quick research - http://www.smartwatchgroup.com... So they sold 6.8 millions of these gadgets in 2014 in US. I'm not impressed with these numbers. The only actual usage so far is: - fitness crowd - cool people that buy anything new that comes out for bragging rights - gifts for people who already have everything else
The #1 smartwatch.... well actually #2 after the iWatch but it still outsells all the Android wear watches put together, the Pebble is not giving up data.
Plus it is significantly easier to write software and faces for. Oh and that 5-7 day battery life that destroys all other smartwatches...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.