Privacy groups this week began pushing regulators to block the Fitbit acquisition, which the company originally hoped to close in early 2020.
's latest acquisition would be Fitbit, the maker of a device he wore at all hours of the day except in the shower, he left his Fitbit Charge 3 on the table at his office where he was working that day. He, and others like him, haven't picked theirs up since.for $2.1 billion in hopes of boosting its hardware business getting a foothold in the health space. Google explicitlysaid in the deal announcement that it won't sell their personal or health data.
The trend of people throwing or threatening to throw out their Fitbit devices comes as Google faces athat has spanned everyday users and regulators alike. The company has paid data privacy fines in the EU and made recent strides into the stringently regulated healthcare industry, which has caused the public to re-think seemingly harmless tools. Privacy groups this week began
Some people cited Google's 2014 acquisition of Nest Labs, which, at the time consisted of smart home thermostats. Since then, the company has"I use a lot of Google services and think they do a decent job, but I'm not interested in adding my health data to their systems," said Fredrik Matheson who got rid of his Charge 3 after the announcement.
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