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
Withings is a French company: https://www.withings.com/eu/en/
Looked at their infrastructure and it looks like a solid alternative:
On the shortlist it goes.
I've been using Fast N Fitness, it's on F-Droid.
What equipment do you use it with?
Pixels running GrapheneOS, but I'd imagine it should work with most Android devices.
I think there's a few on f-droid though i've never used any so can't recommend one over the other. I also don't know where they are developed but if american, probably just one person or open source team and not a company.
@biofaust Would an independent app like gadgetbridge help?
https://gadgetbridge.org/