fringe: Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/03/sexual-activity-tracked-by-fitbit-shows-up-in-google-search-results/

Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results
Leena Rao
July 3, 2011

Yikes. Users of fitness and calorie tracker Fitbit may need to be more 
careful when creating a profile on the site. The sexual activity of many 
of the users of the company.s tracker and online platform can be found in 
Google Search results, meaning that these users. profiles are public and 
searchable. You can click here to access these results. The Next Web 
reported this earlier this morning.

As you may know, the Fitbit Tracker is an compact wearable device that 
clips onto clothing or slips into a pocket and captures, through 
accelerometer technology, information about daily health activities, such 
as steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, exercise intensity 
levels and sleep quality. Users can also log nutrition, weight, additional 
activities (including sexual activity) and other health information on the 
site in order to gain a complete picture of their health.

So why are Fitbit users. profiles able to be searchable in Google? It.s 
not really Fitbit.s fault. When you create a profile, the default privacy 
setting allows profiles to be found in search results (Google, Bing, etc). 
If you don.t unclick this setting, it will obviously make your profile 
public for anyone to find.

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