the Council of European Data Protection or the EDPB warned Google about the risk of breach of the privacy data from step acquisition against the company fitness tracker Fitbit.
Step acquisition Google on the Fitbit is part of the sector development of health services by adding the data of more than 28 million users of the Fitbit. Fitbit can monitor the data daily users ranging from calories burned, distance traveled, until the beating of the heart.
"the Possibility of a combination of more and the accumulation of sensitive personal data about people in Europe by a major tech company can pose a high risk to privacy," said the EDPB, as quoted from Bloomberg, Friday (21/2).
this Article has been published in Katadata.co.id with the title "Acquisition of a Fitbit, Europe Warns Google about Data Security" , https://katadata.co.id/berita/2020/02/21/akuisisi-fitbit-eropa-peringatkan-google-soal-keamanan-data
Author: Fahmi Ahmad Burhan
Editor: Agustiyanti