Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?
Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?
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.
Gadgebridge is an open source app, which can connect to a lot of different fitness trackers.
https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/
YMM with this, though. I read rave reviews, but it wasn't working well for me. Constantly lost the connection to my Garmin watch. I removed it after a day of frustration.
I wouldn't go as far as giving it a rave review but it works for me. I don't need constant connection, just enough to fetch the activity recordings. You can take the activities and load them into something like Open Tracks.
Be aware you're in for a rough around the edges experience. Garmin etc make their devices for their software only so you won't get all the features. Without the Garmin app for example I can't change the watch face or load workouts to the watch, so I have to have my phone on me during runs, which isn't ideal.
That's pretty cool, it never made sense to have all these cloud services for what is really a local task