The Washington DC and three states sued Google this year for allegedly deceiving consumers – but not specifically via Fitbit products – and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.ĭC attorney general Karl Racine alleged Google “systematically” deceived consumers about how their locations are tracked and used. Google entered a series of commitments in Europe and other parts of the world in which it pledged not to use health and fitness data from Fitbit’s 29 million users to sell more ads. Privacy watchdogs feared it might exploit Fitbit to peer even deeper into people’s lives. Google completed its $2.1billion (€1.8b) acquisition of Fitbit last year, which raised concerns about privacy.Ī subsidiary of Alphabet, Google makes most of its money by selling ads that rely on information it collects about its billions of users’ interests and whereabouts.
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