Most Smart Fitness Devices Lack Essential Data Protection, EFF Warns

When it comes to protecting data collected by smart devices such as smartwatches and fitness bands, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is cautioning that most of the companies aren’t closing their rings on privacy.

In the report, “Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features,” the digital civil liberties group looked at several of the leading companies making smart health devices to see which ones had strong privacy policies over some of customers’ most sensitive data.

The EFF breaks its reporting into two distinct areas: how transparent companies are about law enforcement requests for the information, and whether the data is end-to-end encrypted between the device and the company collecting and processing it.

The results aren’t encouraging. Only a few companies are open about when data is shared, and only one thoroughly secures the data in a way that the company itself would...

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