Fitness/Activity Wearables

So, just to begin, I am not a tinfoil hat kind of person, but do value my privacy. I have no home internet (too far out in the boonies), no FB/Twitter/IG/anything else account, banking is done by paper or in person, location almost never used on my smartphone, data almost always turned off, all Google privacy settings at their strictest, etc. etc. etc. Also, I am 36 yrs old (not an old man, at least in my eyes). Also, I don't care if government has my info, as I have had so many Federal background checks done for my job, plus there's my time in Army Reserves. But private companies doing whatever they will with my info is slightly unnerving.

Anyway, my wife bought a fitness tracker for my b-day the other day (to tracks runs mainly), and I found that the data it collected was auto-uploaded to their servers through a smartphone app, then relayed back to me in a readable format with graphs and such. The company's privacy policy was pretty non-chalant about how these collected health data were used/sold, which bothered me a bit (health insurance companies?, marketing companies?), plus the wearables themselves put out personally identifying BT signals that could be tracked in department stores and other locations (it's true, look it up). After some research, I found that almost every fitness wearable on the market did pretty much the same thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fit...droid-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

So after searching a while, I finally found that the Pebble 2+ seems to be the only fitness tracker/simple-smartwatch that allows you to opt out of sending health info to company servers. Health info is stored on the watch itself and your phone. Most reviewers found this as a negative attribute (i.e.if you reset the watch software to factory defaults, or lose your phone your data disappears), but for me it was exactly what I was looking for.

When researching this info, it was surprising to me that more people were not concerned about the seemingly intrusive nature of these fitness wearables. I just wanted to put the info out there in case others were looking for the same thing.

Sorry if this is a non-issue for most folks, just thought there might be some info here that is useful for others like me.

Edit:. After further research, found that Pebble was sold to Fitbit in December 2016, so they're not making products anymore. Oh well.