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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by narwhal@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love my Garmin, but it is a kinda closed system. I'm not sure how easy it is to develop your own apps for it, but the default ones, while very good, definitely have their problems.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It is closed but not necessarily bad. It was rated highly on the Mozilla Privacy Not Included.