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A comment on Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data. Parent comment

Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by daniel_iversen on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:04AM (#17916259)
Both right? You may not like it but which research wouldn’t benefit from a large useful dataset? And to the post above re: assuming consent, sure maybe they should make it crystal clear up front how they’ll use your data.
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Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by brlewis on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:11AM (#17917543)
How would you suggest making it clear up front? Providing a link to a privacy policy and making people check a box saying they've read it?
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Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by bpchaps on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:46AM (#17918429)
A list of information shared would go a long way. Assuming it's a short list (hah), it wouldn't be hard to prominently display it aside from the privacy policy.

Edit: Also, turn ALL of this into a single step, and make it easier to find: https://blog.fitbit.com/go-incognito/

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Re:Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data by saagarjha on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:06AM (#17918634)
Make it opt-in.
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