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You wear a tracker every day. It knows your heart rate. It knows your sleep. It knows your location. Who sees this data?
HIPAA does not cover your tracker. HIPAA protects data from doctors and hospitals. Wearable companies are not medical providers. Your heart rate data has little legal protection.
You rely on the company privacy policy.
Fitbit uses Google accounts. Fitbit collects 23 data types. Google says it does not use this for ads. It still shares anonymous data for business. Meta and Google tools track your app use.
Anonymous data is not safe. A study found 87% accuracy in naming people. Researchers used age, zip code, and activity.
Whoop faces a lawsuit for sharing data with ads. Regulation is changing.