Samsung Health is Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.'s fitness and wellness app, syncing steps, workouts, sleep, and biometric data from Galaxy Watch and other wearables through a Samsung Account. Samsung's Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement discloses collection of a broad range of sensitive health categories -- bodily/vital-sign measurements, reproductive and sexual health information, medical-record contents (including diagnoses and gender-affirming care information), and inferred/derived health data -- but Samsung Health's Apple App Store privacy label declares all of that data 'Not Linked to You,' with no 'Data Linked to You' or 'Data Used to Track You' sections disclosed. Samsung's overarching US Privacy Policy, which the health-data statement explicitly supplements, permits sharing collected data with subsidiaries/affiliates and unnamed 'business partners' and runs a first-party ad network (Samsung Ads) with third-party online tracking across 'certain Services.' No Samsung Health-specific breach, regulator action, or lawsuit was found; Samsung's own September 2022 notice of a breach of 'Samsung's U.S. systems' (affecting name, contact, demographic, and product-registration data) is company/account-level, not confirmed to include Samsung Health data specifically, but is a real, disclosed incident from the same account infrastructure Samsung Health relies on.
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Samsung Health's Apple App Store privacy label declares Health & Fitness, Contact Info (email, name), Identifiers (User ID), Location, and Diagnostics data as collected but placed only under 'Data Not Linked to You,' used for Analytics, App Functionality, and Product Personalization purposes -- with no data categories declared under 'Data Linked to You.'
Samsung's Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement, which supplements the Samsung Health Privacy Policy, states that when a user uses a feature that collects consumer health data, Samsung may collect bodily functions/vital signs, reproductive or sexual health information, medical-record contents including diagnoses and gender-affirming care information, and data inferred through algorithms or machine learning, and requires consent for this collection where required by law.
Samsung Health's Apple App Store listing self-declares its Seller as 'Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.' -- the same named parent company (KRX-listed) already catalogued in Paranoia as the samsung-electronics entity.
Samsung's US Privacy Policy identifies 'Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and its affiliates' as the entity referred to as 'Samsung Electronics', 'Samsung', or 'we' throughout the policy governing Samsung's devices and services, effective July 20, 2026.
Samsung's Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement states that consumer health data (collected through Services such as Samsung Health) will only be shared 'with the parties as described in the privacy notice or policy that refers to this Statement,' consent will be obtained where required by law, and users have the right to withdraw consent, which 'will cease the collection, use, and sharing of such consumer health data.'
Samsung's US Privacy Policy states that as users use the Services, Samsung shares the information it collects with several categories of recipients, including 'Subsidiaries and Affiliates' (Samsung-branded and non-branded) and 'Business Partners' such as wireless carriers, content/feature providers, and financing partners who receive information when a user requests a service they provide.
Samsung's own Security Response Center notice (dated September 2, 2022) discloses that in late July 2022 an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of 'Samsung's U.S. systems,' affecting some customers' name, contact and demographic information, date of birth, and product registration information, though not Social Security numbers or payment card numbers; the notice does not specify Samsung Health as an affected system.
Samsung Health's Apple App Store privacy label contains no 'Data Linked to You' section and no 'Data Used to Track You' section -- Apple's cross-app tracking disclosure category is absent entirely, with all declared categories (Health & Fitness, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics) appearing only under 'Data Not Linked to You.'
Samsung's US Privacy Policy (effective July 20, 2026), which the Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement says its notices supplement, discloses that 'through certain Services, both we and various third parties may collect information about your online activities to provide you with advertising,' and that Samsung Ads 'may deliver personalized ads based on your demographic characteristics, preferences, choices, and interests' across Samsung and third-party platforms.