{“There} is nothing that I need to keep {secret”}: Sharing Practices and Concerns of Wearable Fitness Data

A Alqhatani, HR Lipford - Fifteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and …, 2019 - usenix.org
There has been increasing use of commercial wearable devices for tracking fitness-related
activities in the past few years. These devices sense and collect a variety of personal health …

'There's nothing really they can do with this information': unpacking how users manage privacy boundaries for personal fitness information

M Zimmer, P Kumar, J Vitak, Y Liao… - Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fitness trackers are an increasingly popular tool for tracking one's health and physical
activity. While research has evaluated how these mobile devices can improve health and …

Privacy attitudes and data valuation among fitness tracker users

J Vitak, Y Liao, P Kumar, M Zimmer… - … Digital Worlds: 13th …, 2018 - Springer
Fitness trackers are an increasingly popular tool for tracking one's health and physical
activity. While research has evaluated the potential benefits of these devices for health and …

A step in the right direction–understanding privacy concerns and perceived sensitivity of fitness trackers

C Lidynia, P Brauner, M Ziefle - Advances in Human Factors in Wearable …, 2018 - Springer
Keeping an active lifestyle has been important and recommended for decades. The arrival of
the Internet of Things (IoT) offers opportunities to simplify the tracking and logging of data …

Understanding fitness tracker users' security and privacy knowledge, attitudes and behaviours

S Gabriele, S Chiasson - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Personal data collected by fitness trackers can leave users open to security and privacy
threats, often without their knowledge. Using an online survey with 212 fitness tracker users …

Analysis of privacy protections in fitness tracking social networks-or-you can run, but can you hide?

WU Hassan, S Hussain, A Bates - 27th USENIX Security Symposium …, 2018 - usenix.org
Mobile fitness tracking apps allow users to track their workouts and share them with friends
through online social networks. Although the sharing of personal data is an inherent risk in …

Fitness tracking technologies: Data privacy doesn't matter? The (un) concerns of users, former users, and non-users

K Fietkiewicz, A Ilhan - 2020 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
To be concerned about data privacy in the fitness tracking world is apparently not the
question of age or fitness level. It also does not necessarily influence the actual use of …

[PDF][PDF] Information disclosure concerns in the age of wearable computing

L Lee, J Lee, S Egelman… - NDSS Workshop on …, 2016 - ndss-symposium.org
Wearable devices, or “wearables,” bring great benefits but also potential information
disclosure risks that could expose users' activities without their awareness or consent. We …

Understanding sharing preferences and behavior for mHealth devices

A Prasad, J Sorber, T Stablein, D Anthony… - Proceedings of the 2012 …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
If people are not in control of the collection and sharing of their personal health information
collected using mobile health (mHealth) devices and applications, privacy concerns could …

Are those steps worth your privacy? Fitness-tracker users' perceptions of privacy and utility

L Velykoivanenko, KS Niksirat, N Zufferey… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Fitness trackers are increasingly popular. The data they collect provides substantial benefits
to their users, but it also creates privacy risks. In this work, we investigate how fitness-tracker …