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How Private Is The Data Collected By Fitness Trackers?
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As the use of health and fitness mobile apps and wearable activity trackers grow, so do questions about what happens to the sensitive data these devices collect - all those steps, calories and heart rate readings the devices measure. Carolyn Beeler from Here & Now contributor WHYY's "The Pulse" reports.
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- Carolyn Beeler, reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia. She tweets @carolynbeeler.
This segment aired on May 7, 2015.