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🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14

Watches, bands, and rings—if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it. And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device. But what are the companies that make fitness trackers doing to protect our sensitive data from prying eyes? A lot less than they could be, it turns out. We're explaining what companies can do to protect your health data, and more, with our EFFector newsletter . JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 year

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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy · Healthcare
Retrieved: 30 July 2026

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ethics.ai (29 July 2026), “🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14,” evidence record 14600, https://ethics.ai/record/14600 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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