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Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter (foundation.mozilla.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter distills what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just plain creepy in the world of consumer tech.

Includes 'big picture trends', 'best and worst products', and 'numbers'

If you haven't used PrivacyNotIncluded before, here is a link to the homepage where you can search up other products and services that you are interested in: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I half expected them to absolutely rip into the Apple Watch. Instead, a lot of other smart watches and fitness trackers that are a lot higher on the big list, and the top two things in this list that I have are... WhatsApp and Discord. Figures, those are the two I'd be most happy to get rid of for good (though Discord a lot more than WhatsApp).

Also holy shit the state of car privacy is bad.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe the Apple Watch is far better for privacy than Fitbits are. Health data is end to end encrypted on Apple watches. Fitbit requires you to sync things with their cloud services and they have access to all of the data AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Also Fitbit is owned by Google now and if you created an account afterwards, everything is tied to your Google account. Which is a yikes