TOTAL: {[ getCartTotalCost() | currencyFilter ]} Update cart for total shopping_basket Checkout

Daily Dashboard | Fitness Site Exposes Calorie Burning Activities Related reading: US NTIA releases AI Accountability Policy Report

rss_feed

""

""

An online fitness tracking company, which encourages users to share calorie-burning activities through the company's website, has reset its new-user defaults to "private" after unknowingly exposing some users' intimate activities, reports Forbes. Fitbit has historically made user profiles public to promote competition, but a spokesperson said the company did not intend for "the sharing of intimate information." About 200 users' activities were searchable online. The company has contacted search engines to remove the data, hidden all activity records on its site and removed identifiable information from user profiles. "Out of a desire to have a successful 'social strategy,' too many companies are choosing to publicize their users' information as much as possible,"the report states.
Full Story

Comments

If you want to comment on this post, you need to login.