By AppleInsider Staff Monday, February 08, 2016, 07:22 am PT (10:22 am ET) Please enable JavaScript to view comments
New research from the University of Toronto and Open Effect, a Canadian privacy non-profit firm, suggests that Xiaomi and their associated IoT software ecosystems are the most well-designed wearables currently available. Of 8 devices tested, Apple's Smartwatch was found to feature the highest levels of Bluetooth privacy protection, thereby decreasing the likelihood that individual users' movements can be tracked when their fitness bands are not actively paired with the device. These findings are important because other companies such as Garmin, Jawbone, Mio, Withings and Apple Smartwatches showed that comparable weaknesses in their tracking security may call into question the integrity of fitness tracker data at a time when its legal status as evidence for court cases is currently being hotly debated.