cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33995436

I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.

I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.

Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?

I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don’t think I’m capable of doing that yet.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    2 days ago

    I doubt it, their entire business model is data mining so you would need one whose entire business model is selling G the device with a privacy focus. I bet that would make them not very cheap.

    • lentildrop@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I wouldn’t characterize Garmin as having a business model based on data mining, their privacy policy is actually the best out of the mainstream fitness watches and they’re probably one of the best privacy respecting choices especially if you don’t connect it to the internet. It doesn’t necessarily satisfy OPs requirement of not sending data to the US, though.