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Garmins take on privacy

Former Member over 6 years ago

For example, do my watch transmit uniquely trackable identifiers all the time?

See this analyze made by Canadian privacy organization Open Effect for more reading on what I ask for.

https://openeffect.ca/fitness-tracker-privacy-and-security/

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Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

If you're using a sports tracker to send your activities to Strava and Garmin......

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0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Sad to see there's not much interest in personal privacy.

What I want to know is if Bluetooth in Fenix 5 Plus is using “LE Privacy” or any other method for safeguarding my privacy?

See https://www.bluetooth.com/blog/bluetooth-technology-protecting-your-privacy/

0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

If you're using a sports tracker to send your activities to Strava and Garmin......

0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

Also as this is a user forum, you'd be best off contacting Garmin via their support email

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

That report is from 2016 and the Bluetooth LE Privacy is from 2015...

So I think you can safely say, as there is no other info of a more recent date - that this is a non-sequiteur. especially since, for example a little searching foun that

“Garmin Connect had the most worrying security issue, in that fitness data transmissions over the Internet did not employ transit-level encryption,” explained Hilts. “Anyone operating a mobile hotspot at a cafe or your IT department at work could potentially have scooped that up.”

Thankfully, Garmin has since updated its Connect app to use HTTPS for all transmissions, closing that particular loophole. But many of the issues exposed by the report remain."

these are four year old closed issues