Garmins take on privacy

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