This is the second time that this has surfaced. The article is misleading because, first off, you have complete control over the privacy settings of your profile. So, these people choose to have their activity public. Secondly, the FitBit is not capable of automatically tagging activity as Sex. The user must go onto the site and add that "activity" to their profile manually.
FitBit is nothing more than a glorified pedometer with a good web-based tracking software.
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This is the second time that this has surfaced. The article is misleading because, first off, you have complete control over the privacy settings of your profile. So, these people choose to have their activity public. Secondly, the FitBit is not capable of automatically tagging activity as Sex. The user must go onto the site and add that "activity" to their profile manually. FitBit is nothing more than a glorified pedometer with a good web-based tracking software.