I can see them linking this data to medical data and getting sued again. Like last June https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/technology/google-univers...
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
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#12I was hoping to have some time to transition off the platform before this went through. Any idea when the official "Google actually owns it" point will be?
I guess about half a year. For IBM's acquisition of Red Hat the timeline was about 9 months.
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#13"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."
Yeah, sure.
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#14More personal data to use and build a complete model of you.
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#15"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."
Isn't selling your company with the data the same as selling your data?
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#16"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."
Yeah, sure.
Just scroll down and click accept in the meantime.
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#17I loved Fitbit for many years, especially for its strong privacy stance. If my data becomes part of Google's surveillance economy, I will be greatly disappointed.
Alas, Fitbit data has just become part of Google's surveillance economy.
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#18"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."
Isn't selling your company with the data the same as selling your data?
This 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.
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#19Jeff dean needs more data from you minions! Surely great news for fitbit , lets hope to see more advanced tech coming to our wrists!