cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33995436

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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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Get a smartwatch with Gadgetbridge support and keep your data on your phone.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's also FitoTrack which is an open source, local android app for fitness tracking

    https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    HealthyPi Move is open source (including hardware) and doesn't send data anywhere (only locally to the app being developed). It's available for pre-order at this time.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Garmin then use the FOSS Garmin connect app I forget the name. You get all the fancy important data and monitoring. None of the worries. Or just don't sync your data and monitor over time on the watch itself. Batteries are second to none. Garmin is the way to go. I've tried them all.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Gadgetbridge?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I wouldn't characterize Garmin as having a business model based on data mining, their privacy policy is actually the best out of the mainstream fitness watches and they're probably one of the best privacy respecting choices especially if you don't connect it to the internet. It doesn't necessarily satisfy OPs requirement of not sending data to the US, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What are you looking to track? Also, don't worry if you don't know how to self host, that's what the community is for 🙂

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pencil and paper. In a small safe. :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Do you have a URL to this foss app?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You could try Withings. I believe they're based out of France.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Not sure, but maybe a Casio G-Shock? You'll likely still be spied on, but maybe not by the US? Personally, i wear a Huawei,,, oh well.

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