Just 18 months ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that over one out of every five United States consumers currently owns some form of wearable technology. See PwC Health Research Institute, Health Wearables: Early Days, at 2.
Wearable Fitness Tracking Devices
As the use of fitness trackers and other personal monitoring devices becomes more prevalent, an increase in consumer litigation over them is inevitable. Because such devices are still cutting-edge in many respects, the opportunities for unexpected manufacturing and design problems is also high. And because some of the data involved may be highly personal, the risk of privacy breach claims is certainly not zero.
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