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Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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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.

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[–] Melchior@feddit.org 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Gadgebridge is an open source app, which can connect to a lot of different fitness trackers.

https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

That's pretty cool, it never made sense to have all these cloud services for what is really a local task

[–] Raugulas@lemmy.wtf 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Withings is a French company: https://www.withings.com/eu/en/

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Looked at their infrastructure and it looks like a solid alternative:

BSO (UK) is their infrastructure provider
GCP (USA) is used only as storage for encrypted backups and for AI features of a urine analyzer.

On the shortlist it goes.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Fast N Fitness, it's on F-Droid.

[–] LowtierComputer@feddit.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What equipment do you use it with?

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Pixels running GrapheneOS, but I'd imagine it should work with most Android devices.