How CPAP users are being spied on

You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/you-snooze-you-lose-insurers-make-the-old-adage-literally-true/

        Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about
        the machine that helps him breathe at night.  Without his
        knowledge, it was spying on him.  From his bedside, the device
        was tracking when he was using it and sending the information
        not just to his doctor, but to the maker of the machine, to
        the medical supply company that provided it, and to his health
        insurer.  Schmidt, an information technology specialist from
        Carrollton, Texas, was shocked. "I had no idea they were
        sending my information across the wire."

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