10 Holiday Tech Gifts With Hidden Privacy Problems
Name, email, phone number, address, birthday, gender, voice and audio recordings, biometric data, contacts, heart rate, movement, sleep data, menstrual cycle, health data, nearby devices, purchase information, data from connected Spotify accounts, search history, details about how you use smart home productsAdvertising, sharing data with third parties, combining information with data from third parties, developing algorithmsWhat’s the worst that could happen with Fitbit [which operates the...
third-party company that allowed users to sync their health data from their fitness trackers did not secure the data properly. Personal information such as names, birthdates, weight, height, gender, and geographical location for Fitbit and other fitness-tracker users was left exposed because the company didn’t password protect or encrypt their database.
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