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Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by ndnxhs on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:55AM (#18457420)
Tracking your location and speed is fine. What is creepy is sending that data off to fitbits servers where they do whatever they want with it. Fitbit have also been known to hand over your health data to police when requested.

There is literally no reason a fitness device could not do everything locally.

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Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by a_imho on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:13AM (#18457683)
There is literally no reason a fitness device could not do everything locally.

Would be interested in such a device if they were available.

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Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s... by ndnxhs on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:42AM (#18458508)
Gadgetbridge is an open source app that reverse engineers the protocols from many popular watches but the health page on the app is super basic. Could really do with a clean up and better charts
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