Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security

Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by cyphar on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:23PM (#18456352)

But a contractor working on your codebase (which is what I believe you were implying) isn't the same as providing user data to a third party (for processing or for advertising and so on).

Providing data to third parties for processing is clearly different (and as an ex-user of one of Fitbit's products I definitely wouldn't have expected that this is the case -- Fitbit's fitness tracking is so core to the company that I wouldn't expect the processing of said data to be outsourced.) Yeah, it's in your privacy policy but that's just a cop-out (by that metric, no product can unexpectedly send data to third-parties).

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Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by brlewis on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:18PM (#18456826)

I think you're making assumptions about the kind of information that's shared. The kind of example to think of is when you buy from Fitbit and your information gets sent to a payment processor.

Here's the whole paragraph:

We transfer information to our corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners who process it for us, based on our instructions, and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These partners provide us with services globally, including for customer support, information technology, payments, sales, marketing, data analysis, research, and surveys.

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Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by brlewis on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:49PM (#18456473)

I was talking about customer service and the other examples listed in the policy.

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