Do You Know Who Is Talking to Your Wearable Smartband?

Fitness Trackers Mobile Applications Personally Identifiable Information Social Networking Telemedicine
fitness trackers privacy security wearable devices

Journal

Studies in health technology and informatics
ISSN: 1879-8365
Titre abrégé: Stud Health Technol Inform
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9214582

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 Nov 2020
Historique:
entrez: 23 11 2020
pubmed: 24 11 2020
medline: 26 11 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We study seven fitness trackers and their associated smartphone apps from a wide variety of manufacturers, and record who they are talking to. Our results suggest that some of them communicate with unexpected third parties, including social networks, advertisement websites, weather services, and various external APIs. This implies that such unanticipated third-parties may glean personal information of users.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200711 PMID: 33227757
pubmed: 33227757
pii: SHTI200711
doi: 10.3233/SHTI200711
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

142-146

Auteurs

Andrei Kazlouski (A)

Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece.
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.

Thomas Marchioro (T)

Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece.
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.

Harry Manifavas (H)

Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece.
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.

Evangelos Markatos (E)

Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece.
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.

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