Google’s after your health data with ‘Google Fit’ service

Editor’s Note: Silicon Valley, CA poses a far greater threat to privacy than Fort Meade, MD.

From: NakedSecurity

by Lisa Vaas

Google’s about to jump into the growing fitness data marketplace – a mosh pit that consumer advocates are already calling a privacy nightmare – to wrestle with Apple and Samsung for the data created by fitness trackers and health-related apps.

Sources told Forbes that Google’s planning to launch its new health service, called Google Fit, at its Google I/O developers conference, held on 25 and 26 June 2014.

Google Fit will reportedly collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps via open APIs.

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