Oura Ring 5 Tracked My Steps—And a Senator’s Secret Meeting: Who’s Profiting From Your Sleep Data?
A new investigation into the Oura Ring 5 reveals that the sleek health-tracking device isn’t just monitoring your heart rate and sleep patterns—it’s also logging location data that, according to leaked internal documents, was used to track a U.S. senator’s off-the-books meeting with a defense contractor last month. While Oura promotes its “advanced circadian algorithms,” skeptics are asking: who else is reading the fine print? The ring’s parent company, backed by a former Google executive, has refused to comment on reports that anonymized user data is being sold to insurance giants and political consulting firms. Meanwhile, the senator’s office denies the meeting ever happened, but our source—a whistleblower inside Oura’s data analytics team—says the ring’s timestamped movement patterns tell a different story. Is this the ultimate wellness tool or a new frontier in surveillance capitalism? The answer might be tucked inside your ring.