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Fitbit users fear privacy invasion after $2.1bn Google acquisition
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/05/fitbit-google-acquisition-health-data

Fitbit says data of its 28 million users will not be sold or used for Google ads Google’s recent acquisition of Fitbit for $2.1bn has left many users worried the tech giant may soon have access to their most intimate health information – from the number of steps they take each day to their breathing patterns, sleep quality or menstrual cycles. Fitbit, founded in San Francisco in 2007, tracks the health data of 28 million users. In a blogpost following the acquisition on Friday, Fitbit (...)

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Drone registration made compulsory as UK scheme launches
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/05/drone-registration-made-compulsory-as-uk-scheme-launches

Users must sit online test and pay annual fee of £9 to join register or face £1,000 fine Drone users in the UK must now sit an online test and pay a £9 annual fee or face a £1,000 fine after the launch of a mandatory national registration scheme on Tuesday. Owners are obliged to identify and label all drones by 30 November, and operators must pass a test about legal and safe usage before they can fly them. The Civil Aviation Authority estimates that about 130,000 people will have to pay and (...)

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