What a huge mine of private data, however! Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?
Privacy is a protection against (often irrational) people who are out to hurt you.
Why say "who cares" about privacy, anyways? Even if you don't personally need it, you needn't erode other a privacy someone else might value.
Privacy has a way of never returning once lost.
"Anything that can be measured, you record—and
it’s applied to things like managing your weight,
or deciding how likely you are to dope in the Tour
de France. But with infertility? You get a Xerox
from the 1960s.”And, even if someone's ovulating or not-ovulating... it's often moot when it comes to whether to opt for fertility treatment. It's much more about time spent trying already, and finances.
This app is a "me-too" app
Anyone read this and then think of this study?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/10/us-sperm-exercise-...
On a related note, has there ever been anything unsuccessful from the Paypal Mafia?
"By asking about sexual positions and female orgasms, for example, the app is collecting data on oft-cited but little-researched possible factors in successful conception. The founders say that physicians have already signed on to use this data in studies. And eventually, Levchin said, they hope to make the data collection totally passive (by using a combination of phone sensors and specialized hardware) so that you don’t even have to take the trouble of entering any numbers yourself."
And then the video will be automatically uploaded to the NSA.
It would take some guesswork. But there are fairly characteristic rhythmic motions in sex that you can look for. The various angles and rhythm is correlated with the sexual position. Comparing hand-entered data with actual data would let you discover these correlations.
(More creepy would be listening to the microphone and guessing from that...)
It was at attempt to re-introduce cloning style massively parallel reproduction to the human species.
That was what I thought this story would be about.
Seriously though, don't you think Snowden could get a few hundred extremely smart, civil libertarian women to agree to bear his children?
Before we start indulging in fantasies of tech folks begatting like in the Bible and creating a master IT race, could we care about the kids that people already created first?
The kids on the planet already have plenty of potential, we really don't need to keep pumping them out.
How people are having sex, on the other hand, is pretty irrelevant to everyone except those people, isn't it?
http://theweek.com/article/index/247156/ken-cuccinellis-crus...