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"Similar to our other products, with wearables, we will be transparent about the data we collect and why. We will never sell personal information to anyone. Fit
by bilal4hmed 7y ago
"Similar to our other products, with wearables, we will be transparent about the data we collect and why. We will never sell personal information to anyone. Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads. And we will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data."
- hugi 7y agoYeah, sure.
- windsurfer 7y agoIsn't selling your company with the data the same as selling your data?
- sneak 7y agoThis is the same situation as when Facebook bought that cool app Moves, and suddenly Facebook had retroactive access to all of my location history and IP+timestamps.
- mattkevan 7y agoIt's true Google doesn't sell your data: they just rent it out a bit.
- tomComb 7y agoSaying they rent it is almost as misleading as all the people that say they sell it. It implies that the renter gets the data and they don't and that distinction is key. But I too am not sure what the right way to describe it is. I guess you could say they use your data in the product that they sell.
- swader999 7y agoIt's there in all its glory for the state. Massive surveillance to create a permanent record of everything about everyone.
- lm28469 7y agoThe problem with this kind of statement is that the data will be there forever and all it takes is a "welp he changed our minds" to undo everything.
- mattkevan 7y ago> Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads "For now. We'll wait a few years until everyone's forgotten, then launch an amazing new service that just happens to combine health and ads data. What? Hey, it worked for Facebook and WhatsApp."
- taneq 7y agoWell that's pure baloney. They're clear that they may collect data such as <non-exhaustive examples> and that it may be used in a variety of ways which could include <list of vague, anodyne fluff>.