> Imagine your ex works for Eight Sleep. Or imagine they want to know when you’re not home.
I think what is often missed in "company gathers data it doesn't need" scenarios is not that someone inside Eight Sleep abuses the data, or the company itself does it, but them gathering this data for years and then losing it to some 14yo hacker who promptly posts it and suddenly all your data is public.
The inside job may sound a little far fetched, but the latter is only a matter of time.
Once it happens multiple times with different services, everyone gets access to everything about you.
I think what is often missed in "company gathers data it doesn't need" scenarios is not that someone inside Eight Sleep abuses the data, or the company itself does it, but them gathering this data for years and then losing it to some 14yo hacker who promptly posts it and suddenly all your data is public.
The inside job may sound a little far fetched, but the latter is only a matter of time.
Once it happens multiple times with different services, everyone gets access to everything about you.