Concerns on Third-Party Clock Faces privacy.

[Dave-21]

Hey all. Received a Sense for Christmas and seen that I can install other clock faces but they are not from Fitbit, per say, but third party developers. When installing, their are permissions required to allow them to access. Sounds like a privacy issue as the third party developer would have access to private data as well.

[Guy_]

HI @Dave-21 - it depends on the permissions - those Clock faces/Apps with Internet can be an issue because you don't know what information is transmitted. Normally data on your watch or in your profile remains private.

The ones you have to pay for may be less safe.

[Dave-21]

I was looking at the Free ones but yeah, I believe it just screams ID theft or peoples information being stolen. Don't understand why Fitbit would allow such an easy way for people to get their private info stolen. I would love to have some of those nice ones on but the fact it isn't by Fitbit and some people we don't know that would be getting your data is scary in this day and age of rampant cybercrime.

Thank you for your response.

[Guy_]

Hi @Dave-21  - good you highlight the issue, but of course if you don't ever enable Internet permission, or choose ones without Internet access you should be safe.

Which of course automatically eliminates all the non free ones.

[Clove6060]

@Dave-21 

I agree completely. Some people have concern over the data Fitbit collects and analyzes. 

[deiG]

Try this watch face, light-weight and no internet permission:

https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/9853168a-3f12-49ff-9932-e7077a0eec2d