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Just found out my health app sold my workout data to a research firm without my clear okay
It took me 8 hours of digging through settings and privacy policies to even find the opt-out. Does anyone know a truly private fitness tracker?
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shanef3413d ago
Welcome to the club where your abs are public domain.
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drewr1513d ago
Yeah, the "public domain" line is spot on, @shanef34. I saw a whole thread about how people feel entitled to comment on fitness pics.
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blake79213d ago
The privacy policy for my old tracker had a clause about sharing "de-identified" data for "scientific advancement." Turns out that meant selling my sleep patterns to an ad firm that also works with insurance companies. It's not just your workout stats, it's your resting heart rate and location data getting packaged and resold. Finding the opt-out is a second job, and half the time they just add a new partner next month. You start to feel like the product is you, not the device on your wrist.
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