Kingy said:

Divine Angel said:

I bought an el cheapo smart fitness bracelet thingy today. I don’t expect too much from it which is good because in the hour I’ve been wearing it, I’ve not left the couch and it has recorded over 1200 steps. Also measures heart rate, bpm, O2 saturation etc. And it’s a watch, which is handy. I can sync it to receive calls and SMS but I won’t.

So far the worst thing about it is the ridiculous charging cord. It’s about 10cm long and the charging connection is magnetic but unstable so it’s a balancing trick to get the bloody thing to charge.

There’s a fair chance that it’s just an espionage app. Records voices, wifi, phone signals, location, movement, etc.

I’m not even joking.

Thanks Kingy. I’ve turned on the app privacy report on my phone so at the first sign of anything untoward, it’s gone. My BIL is an expert in cybersecurity so I’ll get him to have a look too. He’s so dedicated to cybersecurity he rewrote the code to his robot vac so it couldn’t send data back to China or Russia or wherever.

None of the permissions were ever turned on.