I do not know how you feel when reading this.
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If you plan on reselling any derivatives of SleepyHead, I specifically request that you give due credit and link back, mentioning clearly in your advertising material, software installer and about screens that your derivative "is based on the free and open-source software SleepyHead available from, developed and copyright by Mark Watkins (C) 2011-2018." Seeing his work being used to exploit others is incredibly un-motivational, and incredibly disrespectful of all the work he put into this project. Mark Watkins created this software to help lessen the exploitation of others. Redistribution of derivatives ( a note added by Mark Watkins ) The forked project pays tribute and carries this specific request from the original developer: Here is the successor project, it is called OSCAR: Luckily, other developers have picked up the project, it had a GPLv3 license, they forked it and they continue to develop it according to the license. I think this project is also a prime example why people need free software in order to protect their rights to privacy, and rights on their own data, especially health data. To me, it is profoundly saddening and also infuriating that projects like these get shut down due to abuse and harassment. Specifically, a screenshot is shared there which is this one: Then I found this, in a thread of users from a forum of the Mayo Clinic: I googled around and found quickly that there exists FLOSS software for reading and displaying this kind of data.
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Or, companies could use the data to black-list people from employment who might not work with full capacity according to their expectations. For example, a car insurance company could buy up this data and use it to argue that somebody involved in a car accident was not using his device well enough to avoid an accident, since apnea can in fact can cause accidents due to sleepiness. That means the users would give up any control on their own health data. Worse, some manufacturers offer that people can see some of their data if they agree the data is sent to their servers by a mobile network connection, allowing the users to view it by a mobile app they provide. To check that, they would need a doctor's visit which in today's world is still expensive to many people.
The devices store a lot of health data, typically on SD cards, which can be read by doctors, but for patients there is typically no privacy-friendly way to see their own stored data and verify the device is working properly. Just to give very briefly some background, CPAP devices are respiratory devices in the price range of 600 - 1000 USD which are used by a lot of people who have a common but dangerous chronic medical condition called obstructive sleep apnoa - they need to use them to stay healthy, otherwise they not only can't sleep well but have a much larger risk of stroke or cardiac arrest. Yesterday, I as talking with my uncle, who is using a CPAP device, and he commented to me that he would like to read the data the device is storing on an SD card, but he didn't find a way to do so.
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