No Watch lock possible?

It should be left to the user whether he prefers letting the watch unlocked in case of loss, in order to allow the authorities to gain couple of minutes of time, or whether he prefers keeping it locked for random lurkers.

In fact it could be also done so, that the authorities have their own key for accessing the devices without losing any time at all, but frankly told I do not think it is a good idea, although still better than keeping the device open to anyone.

You want to go into it further? ok.
This woman from my case would certainly have seen it the same way as you BEFORE the abduction.

She might have had exactly the same concerns as the ones posted in this thread.
Don't you think that in retrospect she was glad that her device was NOT locked? After everything she experienced? After the perpetrator stri**ed her and tied her up ? After he pushed her under water in the bathtub ?
Ask her how long it took for her to be mentally able to exercise on her own again. She is a professional athlete. She is dependent on being able to practise the sport. She earns her money with it.
I suggest you contact her and ask her if she was happy afterwards that there was direct access to the GPS data.

I don't disagree with you. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves whether to block a device. In this specific case, it would have been counterproductive. That's what I wanted to say.
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You are free to keep all your devices unlocked. Do it with your phone, with your computer, and you can even write the PIN on your credit card, if you want. But do not ask others to refrain from their legitimate demands to allow the locking of the watch containing a lot of sensitive data.

trux said:

But do not ask others to refrain from their legitimate demands to allow the locking of the watch containing a lot of sensitive data.

Show me a single passage from our conversation where I said that ?

trux said:

But do not ask others to refrain from their legitimate demands to allow the locking of the watch containing a lot of sensitive data.

bluefish said:

I don't disagree with you. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves whether to block a device.

It would be helpful for good communication if you read my posts correctly.

If you read my posts correctly, you should have read that I was talking about an INDIVIDUAL CASE in which a device lock would have been counterproductive. It is not helpful when you generalize statements about an isolated case - which also can happen to anyone at any time.

user profile data - who cares its isn't identifiable to anyone person (why not a gdpr issue).

navigation data / activity data - well make sure your home isn't one and make sure you don't start your activity from your door step - go at least 300-500m from house and again none of this is now identfiable.

Health dta - again nothing is identifiable to one person.

So as long as you are sensible this really isnt' an issue, and considering my watch comes off at least once (change wrist to sleep) to twice a day (generally sweaty enough post exercise to rinse watch off in water). I really do not want to have to put a code in a couple of times a day.

if I was concerned enough about an attacker I certainly wouldn't leave my watch lying around for them to find/take this info / and if mugged they very likely have much more info about me than my watch provides i.e. drivers licence from where they can get all the info they need - get house address etc, and from that they can build pretty much all hte info the watch contains.

So pretty much moot point in terms of a security risk.

They offer exactly what is required by law to type of data you have stored on your watch.
If they do that another group of people will complain, there are here on forum people complaining why they need to use 2FA when I enabled ECG.
Other complain about weird watch behavior when water drop on the screen but refuse to auto lock their watches what solves this issue completely, they will also complain, why I need to provide PIN when I remove my watch from the wrist or something like that.