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The Garmin Ransomware Hack Is Horrifying
- ziddoap 6y ago>The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously. This is what revealed it? Not the 2018 FitBit/Military debacle[0], or even Vice's own article in 2016 about sleep data from fitness trackers[1]? If every time a major data breach happens we pretend like it's a huge surprise that no one could have predicted, we're going to have a harder time moving forward, I think. [0]https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-bases-location/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-base... [1]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xav4w/what-happens-to-the-data-collected-on-us-while-we-sleep https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xav4w/what-happens-to-th...