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I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit. The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour. I

I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit. The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour. I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 Even if you don't own a smartphone, the loss of privacy to Fitbit is minimal, in my personal opinion. If you do own a smartphone, adding a Fitbit to the picture means an infinitesimal loss of privacy, too small to even be worth talking about. Fitbit has a financial incentive to keep your data private. Can you say that about every app on your phone?

yeahitslikethat 8y ago
When this phone dies I probably won't get another one. Someone gave me their old cracked phone. It would otherwise be garbage and I won't buy a new phone because the whole system is killing the planet and human beings in places we can't name. It's so gross, I don't want to be part of it anymore. So I think you're not going to change my mind about this. Until we start saying no this can't happen anymore. It will keep on. We are all culpable.