Google offers EU data guarantee over Fitbit purchase

15/07/2020 | Reuters

Google has offered to not use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to target ads in the hope that it will assuage the antitrust concerns of the EU.

UPDATE: EU antitrust regulators are to seek feedback from interested parties on whether Google's Fitbit data pledge will ease concerns over their tie-up.

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