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 …

A Run a Day Won't Keep the Hacker Away: Inference Attacks on Endpoint Privacy Zones in Fitness Tracking Social Networks

K Dhondt, V Le Pochat, A Voulimeneas… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fitness tracking social networks such as Strava allow users to record sports activities and
share them publicly. Sharing encourages peer interaction but also constitutes a risk …

Unwinding Ariadne's identity thread: Privacy risks with fitness trackers and online social networks

A Aktypi, JRC Nurse, M Goldsmith - … of the 2017 on Multimedia Privacy …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The recent expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and the grow-ing trends towards a healthier
lifestyle, have been followed by a proliferation in the use of tness-trackers in our daily life …

Keeping information safe from social networking apps

B Viswanath, E Kiciman, S Saroiu - … of the 2012 ACM workshop on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The ability of third-party applications to aggregate and re-purpose personal data is a
fundamental privacy weakness in today's social networking platforms. Prior work has …

{“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 …

Users Can Deduce Sensitive Locations Protected by Privacy Zones on Fitness Tracking Apps

J Mink, AR Yuile, U Pal, AJ Aviv, A Bates - Proceedings Of The 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fitness tracking applications allow athletes to record and share their exercises online,
including GPS routes of their activities. However, sharing mobility data potentially raises real …

Breaking fitness records without moving: Reverse engineering and spoofing fitbit

H Fereidooni, J Classen, T Spink, P Patras… - Research in Attacks …, 2017 - Springer
Tens of millions of wearable fitness trackers are shipped yearly to consumers who routinely
collect information about their exercising patterns. Smartphones push this health-related …

[PDF][PDF] Security analysis of wearable fitness devices (fitbit)

B Cyr, W Horn, D Miao… - Massachusetts …, 2014 - media.kasperskycontenthub.com
This report describes an analysis of the Fitbit Flex ecosystem. Our objectives are to describe
(1) the data Fitbit collects from its users,(2) the data Fitbit provides to its users, and (3) …

[PDF][PDF] " Revoked just now!" Users' Behaviors Toward Fitness-Data Sharing with Third-Party Applications.

N Zufferey, KS Niksirat, M Humbert… - Proc. Priv. Enhancing …, 2023 - usenix.org
The number of users of wearable activity trackers (WATs) has rapidly increased over the last
decade. Although these devices enable their users to monitor their activities and health, they …

On general data protection regulation vulnerabilities and privacy issues, for wearable devices and fitness tracking applications

I Ioannidou, N Sklavos - Cryptography, 2021 - mdpi.com
Individual users' sensitive information, such as heart rate, calories burned, or even sleep
patterns, are casually tracked by smart wearable devices to be further processed or …