📊 Industry Moves
A Senate committee just advanced a bill that would direct the FTC and HHS to write privacy rules for wearables, addressing the HIPAA gap where your Garmin or Apple Watch data currently becomes advertising inventory without consent. It cleared 22-0, signaling regulators are finally tired of fitness data commodification, though the bill still needs full Senate and House votes to become law.
Marty’s Take:
The bigger story: this is the writing on the wall for HIPAA-adjacent devices. Expect Apple, Garmin, and Whoop to preemptively roll out granular data controls before HHS/FTC rules even land, since nobody wants to be the compliance test case. If privacy posture matters to you now, check our best fitness tracker picks for brands already ahead of the curve.
Shop mentioned gear: Apple Watch | Garmin
Source: VitalLaw
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