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No company with surveillance capitalism as their business model should be allowed access to health data from an acquired company without the user explicitly opt
by GeekyBear 6y ago
No company with surveillance capitalism as their business model should be allowed access to health data from an acquired company without the user explicitly opting in.
However, I sincerely doubt Fitbit would have been worth anywhere near as much under those conditions.
- at-fates-hands 6y agoThis is the moral razors edge companies have to walk on nowadays. Do they sell their company out and get rich, or do they stick to their principles and safeguard their users data? I don't have the right answer. What I do know is when you're facing down a multi-million dollar payout, principles tend to get tossed out the window.
- nradov 6y agoFitbit doesn't sell medical devices. The data they gather is health related but legally it's not "protected health information".