MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal, Inc. · Wearable / Fitness Tracker
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Index
MyFitnessPal logs what you eat, your weight and body measurements, exercise and calorie goals, building a detailed picture of diet, health status and behavior patterns. It uses the camera for barcode scanning and links to other fitness services. As an ad-supported app it shares data with advertising and analytics partners, and its account credentials were part of one of the largest breaches on record.
Why this rating
Deductions: collects health, weight and dietary data (-15); as an ad-supported service it shares data with advertising/analytics partners, meeting the sale/targeted-advertising bar (-25); vague retention and processing language (-7). Evidence: the single cited incident is the 2018 breach of ~150M accounts, now more than five years old and weighted at reduced severity; a 2026 tracking-cookie class action (Wiley & Shah v. MyFitnessPal) survived a motion to dismiss but is not yet certified or settled, so it is noted for context rather than counted.
What it is
- Camera
- Requires a cloud account
- Manufacturer
- MyFitnessPal, Inc.
- Category
- Wearable / Fitness Tracker
- Model years
- 2005-present
- Market status
- Current
- Companion app
- MyFitnessPal
The evidence 1
Independent research, regulatory action, lawsuits, breaches and journalism about this device — the "what actually happens" axis. Each links to its source.
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A February 2018 breach exposed usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords for roughly 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts — one of the largest breaches of that year.
Why it matters here: Direct breach of this service's user base; older than five years and largely resolved, so weighted at reduced severity.
Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.