Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Today, noyb filed three complaints against Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and in Italy. The popular health and fitness company, acquired by Google in 2021, forces new users of its app to consent to data transfers outside the EU. Contrary to legal requirements, users aren’t even provided with a possibility to withdraw their consent. Instead, they have to completely delete their account to stop illegal processing. noyb complaint with the Austrian DPA (DE)noyb complaint with the Dutch DPA (NL)English auto-translation of the complaint with the Dutch DPAnoyb complaint with the Italian DPA (IT)No way around the transfer of personal data. When creating an account with Fitbit, European users are obliged to “agree to the transfer of their data to the United States and other countries with different data protection laws”. This means, that their data could end up in any country around the globe that does not have the same privacy protections as the EU. In o