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🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14

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More Americans than ever wear fitness trackers—smartwatches, fitness bands, and rings collecting intimate data about your heart rate, sleep, location, and daily movements. According to EFF Deeplinks, the companies behind these devices aren't doing nearly enough to protect that information. EFF Senior Security and Privacy Activist Thorin Klosowski, speaking in the latest EFFector newsletter, discusses what fitness tracker makers could do to safeguard health data—and why most are currently falling short.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fitness-tracker-pri...

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