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Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7492853

Software that controls your body should always respect your freedom. This article is a recap of scandals of medical devices, like hearing aids, insulin pumps, bionic eyes, and pacemakers, and what we can learn from them. It's astonishing: you wouldn't expect these devices to be run by software in such a way that they can leave you completely helpless.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tandem Diabetes, the people that make one of the few insulin pumps out there, quite vocally demand that, to keep your official apps working, you not update to the latest versions of Android or iOS.

Such bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The idea of using the same device to control my insulin pump as I do to browse memes is rather disturbing. I kinda want an air gap between those two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Do they disable the app if you update or display a warning that it might not be compatible like dexcom?