Petter Reinholdtsen

Privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker?
7th August 2018

Dear lazyweb,

I wonder, is there a fitness tracker / health monitor available for sale today that respect the users privacy? With this I mean a watch/bracelet capable of measuring pulse rate and other fitness/health related values (and by all means, also the correct time and location if possible), which is only provided for me to extract/read from the unit with computer without a radio beacon and Internet connection. In other words, it do not depend on a cell phone app, and do make the measurements available via other peoples computer (aka "the cloud"). The collected data should be available using only free software. I'm not interested in depending on some non-free software that will leave me high and dry some time in the future. I've been unable to find any such unit. I would like to buy it. The ones I have seen for sale here in Norway are proud to report that they share my health data with strangers (aka "cloud enabled"). Is there an alternative? I'm not interested in giving money to people requiring me to accept "privacy terms" to allow myself to measure my own health.

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