{"id":63641,"date":"2026-03-19T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63641"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:38:51","slug":"reason-the-feds-are-investing-in-wearable-health-trackers-that-could-put-your-private-data-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63641","title":{"rendered":"Reason: The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/03\/19\/the-feds-are-investing-in-wearable-health-trackers-that-could-put-your-private-data-at-risk\/\">The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.<\/a> by Jeffrey A. Singer &amp; Patrick Eddington (&#8220;By gathering continuous data about sleep, heart rate, and physical activity, biowearable devices can give individuals more control over their well-being. But they also create a detailed digital record of our daily lives\u2014one that the federal government may soon be able to access readily. Consider this scenario. You&#8217;ve recently received a government-subsidized biowearable. Accordingly, the authorities now know when you&#8217;re sleeping, because the device reports your sleep cycle, location, and daily movements in real time to a cloud server accessible through a legal process. It knows when you&#8217;re home. It knows when you leave. Those data are then obtained by an FBI field office (either through direct purchase or, if necessary, a legal process), because a federal prosecutor has decided that your criticism of immigration enforcement operations and your social media posts supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters constitute &#8216;incitement to violence&#8217; against federal agents.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk. by Jeffrey A. Singer &amp; Patrick Eddington (&#8220;By gathering continuous data about sleep, heart rate, and physical activity, biowearable devices can give individuals &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63642,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63641\/revisions\/63642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}