Google's Fitbit Takeover Probed by EU Regulators (techcrunch.com) 9
The EU is questioning whether Google's proposed takeover of Fitbit will harm competition, or give it access to too much personal data. From a report: Fitbit makes fitness-tracking watches that monitor the wearer's heart rate and activity levels. A group of 20 consumer groups and privacy advocates have called for Google's takeover to be blocked. Google said it would not use Fitbit data to target advertising and would be "transparent" about the data gathered. It announced it was buying loss-making Fitbit for $2.1bn in November 2019. The move would help Google expand its wearables business and offer its own-brand smart watches to rival the Apple Watch. But some are concerned that Google already has a wealth of personal information about many people who use its products. As part of its campaign opposing the takeover, Privacy International said: "We don't think any company should be allowed to accumulate this much intimate information about you."
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Man bad
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But I would love if they were our President! Just imagine World leaders having to stare down blue guys who do not speak.
On phone calls all they would hear is percussion on drainage pipes.
On video, percussion with bright lights and multicolored paints.
Putin would run away scared!
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Ever since I was abducted by aliens (Score:1)
I get triggered by the word probe.
Please stop using this word.
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I get triggered by the word probe.
Please stop using this word.
Too many alien abductions? I hear ya brah.
Yes and yes (Score:1)
Yes, obviously google will abuse their search monopoly to push their new purchase.
They will then combine your fitness activity and bio data with your full search history, your connections they know through your phone, the apps you download, your email, and all the third party databases they bought to know far more about you than you do, And then sell you to everyone who wants to know everything about you.
Or the DoJ could just break them up into appropriate verticals and we'd see real innovation and compet
EU needs "own resources" i.e., money (Score:1)
Oh darling (Score:2)
That ship has sailed. Whether Google gets Fitbit or not is unlikely to change at all how much they know about you.