Google Fit is Google LLC's Android/iOS fitness- and activity-tracking app, operated as a subsidiary of publicly traded Alphabet Inc. Google's own developer documentation states the Google Fit APIs, including the Fit REST API, are being deprecated in 2026 (new developer sign-ups closed as of May 1, 2024) in favor of Health Connect, Android's unified health-data platform. Google's general Privacy Policy names Google Fit directly when describing fitness-data collection (height, weight, sleep patterns, heart rate, skin temperature, calories, steps) and states Google does not show personalized ads based on sensitive categories including health, while its developer pages describe the Fit ecosystem as sharing user fitness data, with permission, into 'hundreds of other apps.' Apple's App Store privacy label for Google Fit discloses a broad set of identity-linked data categories (health data, location, contacts, identifiers) used for Analytics, Product Personalization, and App Functionality, but -- unlike several other Google apps' labels -- does not disclose a 'Data Used to Track You' (cross-app tracking) category. No Fit-specific regulatory action was found, but in November 2022 Google settled with 40 state attorneys general for $391.5 million over misleading users about its account-wide location-tracking settings (Location History vs. Web & App Activity) -- a corporate-level, location-data-specific action directly relevant to what a fitness app collects.
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The New Jersey Attorney General's office states that on 2022-11-14, Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 states to settle allegations that Google misled users about its location-tracking account settings (Location History and Web & App Activity) between 2014 and 2020; as part of the settlement Google agreed to disclose more information when users toggle location settings and to create a new 'Location Technologies' webpage detailing the location data it collects.
Apple's App Store privacy label for Google Fit discloses that Health & Fitness data, plus location, contact info, user content, and identifiers, are collected and linked to the user's identity for purposes including Analytics, and that an even broader set (precise/coarse location, physical address, name, phone number, contacts, photos/videos, identifiers) is collected for App Functionality.
Google's Privacy Policy names Google Fit directly among the fitness products/apps Google offers, stating Google collects data users provide (height, weight) plus data from these apps and devices such as sleep patterns, heart rate, skin temperature, calories burned, and steps taken.
Alphabet Inc.'s FY2025 Form 10-K, filed with the SEC (CIK 1652044), states directly that Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet, and the filing as a whole documents Alphabet as a publicly traded, audited company with Class A/B/C stock and named executive leadership.
Google's Privacy Policy states Google does not show personalized ads based on sensitive categories such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health, and separately states Google does not share personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside Google except in defined cases (consent, legal process, trusted service providers, etc.).
Google's own Fit developer page states that the Fit APIs let developers 'connect with hundreds of other apps while managing a single integration' and that, 'with user permission,' Fit is used to 'share information with leading health and wellness apps' -- describing a broad, permission-gated third-party data-sharing surface across the Fit ecosystem.
The New Jersey Attorney General's office states that on 2022-11-14, Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 states to settle allegations that Google misled users about its location-tracking account settings (Location History and Web & App Activity) between 2014 and 2020; as part of the settlement Google agreed to disclose more information when users toggle location settings and to create a new 'Location Technologies' webpage detailing the location data it collects.
Apple's App Store privacy label for Google Fit discloses that identifiers (User ID, Device ID) and usage/diagnostic data are collected and linked to identity for Analytics and Product Personalization purposes; the label contains no 'Data Used to Track You' section, meaning Google Fit does not self-declare cross-app/cross-site tracking the way several other Google apps' labels do.