Posted on 01/14/2021 12:09:15 PM PST by dhuls
Alphabet-owned Google announced Thursday it’s completed its acquisition of Fitbit.
The deal had been subject to a months-long probe into whether it could further push Google’s market position in the online advertising business if it uses Fitbit data to help personalize ads.
“This deal has always been about devices, not data, and we’ve been clear since the beginning that we will protect Fitbit users’ privacy,” Google’s Senior Vice President of devices and services Rick Osterloh said in a statement.
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“This deal has always been about devices, not data, and we’ve been clear since the beginning that we will protect Fitbit users’ privacy,” Google’s Senior Vice President of devices and services Rick Osterloh said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
They want to track your every heartbeat...
Glad I never bought that piece of crap............................
Google already has more data than that on you.
Same.
Google ‘closes’ it’s Fitbit acquisition.
Does that mean they now have it?
I know it should be obvious, but it’s not.
“Closes” as a verb can mean either to stop trying or to now have.
I was thinking about getting one of those. Not now.
They’ll know more about your health that your own doctors (and they’ll sell it).
no more fitbits
they will start spying on you in the next s/w updates or versions
dumping mine in the trash. FU Google.
Anti-Trust Laws, what are those?
Maybe they should adopt “Every Breath You Take” as their theme song.
You have been subsumed into the borg.
Anyone else remember that Google was granted access to millions of medical records in the last few years?
> ..Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states.
The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.
Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices and other facilities, with the data sharing accelerating since summer, according to internal documents.
The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.
Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents” ...<
bye-bye Fitbit...
We don’t need the Fitbit. Listen to your body. Do a little more each week, as long as you’re getting plenty of sleep.
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