Apple Watch Facing Privacy Concerns

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There are already some doubts being thrown around the web regarding privacy issues on the Apple Watch. These doubts came in the form of several questions which were posed by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who sent a letter to Apple's CEO, Tim Cook. Jepsen has several legitimate concerns about how the Apple Watch will handle certain privacy issues.

Here are a few snippets from his letter with the main issues of contention:

• Whether Apple will allow consumers to store personal and health information on Apple Watch itself and/or on its servers, and if so, how information will be safeguarded;

• If and how Apple will review application privacy policies to ensure that users' health information is safeguarded;

• If and how Apple intends to enforce policies that require the rejection of applications that provide diagnoses, treatment advice, or control hardware designed to diagnose or treat medical conditions that do not provide written regulatory approval;

• What information Apple Watch and its applications will collect from users, and how Apple and application developers will obtain consent to collect and share such information from these individuals; and

• How Apple intends to monitor and enforce applications' compliance with its guidelines concerning users' health information.

As it turns out, several of Jepson's concerns are addressed in Apple's Review Guidelines for developers that was updated in June. Still, not all of Jepson's issues have been sufficiently addressed, so it will be interesting to see if and how Apple responds.

What do you think? Are any of these problems important to you?

Source: MacRumors