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I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.

I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.

Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?

I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don't think I'm capable of doing that yet.

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[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

False.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

And if you're supporting AWS that means that the profits are flowing back to its American executive team.

[โ€“] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah and the Feds are soooooooo interested in fitness data.

[โ€“] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GPS location of your home and work, plus a map of isolated locations where you can regularly be found? Yeah, I can't see any reason why they'd be interested in that.

[โ€“] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume youโ€™re from the UK. Why would any US agency be interested in data from regular UK citizens? Because I really donโ€™t get it. And people usually overestimate the resources that actually get put in into observing individuals. Even the US cannot simply track anyone with a pulse.

Bigger datasets are usefuller.

It's all automated anyway. They don't manually track people anymore unless you are a high-value target.

Your fitness data is impressive, off to the military with you!