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🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14

Published July 29, 2026 · EFF Deeplinks

EFF's newsletter examines how makers of wearable health gadgets—smartwatches, bands, and rings—handle the sensitive health information they collect, concluding that many fall short of reasonable safeguards. The issue also touches on expanding police drone use and a court decision about device searches at U.S. borders, and includes a podcast conversation with an EFF privacy activist about wearables.

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