Sell data to third parties?

[jmc_82]

Hi, I have had a galaxy watch 4 for nearly a year, and used samsung phones for much longer. I read a worrying article saying that samsung sells data to third-parties, not protected by regulations. I cannot make heads or tails with the legalese of the terms and conditions. I have seen the 'consent to processing of of health data' selection in the settings on the phone side, it then tells me that it will delete my data, and as far as I can tell, this is the only option to prevent selling to third parties. Am I missing a setting here, or is it impossible to use the health options on my watch without giving my data to possibly nefarious companies and other entites? The data collected on my watch is very personal to me, and if I cannot choose to have a functioning watch without selling data to third parties, that is worrying to me.

[Pugs1957]

Link to the article?

[JAMES4578]

According to this article  Samsung sells personal and wellness data mainly to 3rd party partners  such as  Google,Instagram and Tiktok.  However  as a proviso mentions that the company does not  directly intrude on users' privacy and some limitation if choose not to use certain functions .  https://www.diggitmagazine.com/articles/samsung-health-ethical-concerns- 

Samsung's overall  privacy policy states that they can share  information to affiliates,business partners, service providers,other parties in the event of corporate transactions  and when required for legal purposes.

Customers have the right to ask the company about details collected  and ask for it to be deleted or  corrected.  can also request to limit/restrict the processing, sharing and transferring of personal information.

See more detail here https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy/ 

[AntS · Accepted solution]

Hi @jmc_82 , Understandable that it would worry you. But to hopefully reassure you: we don't sell customer data to third parties.

There's some perhaps more user-friendly guides about how we use personal data, and how you can manage it here:

https://www.samsung.com/uk/sustainability/security-and-privacy/privacy/ 

https://privacy.samsung.com/ 

And the general Privacy Policy here: https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy/ 

Like Pugs1957 said, are you able to share a link to the article or point us in the right direction of it?

[jmc_82]

It's the same one as James said. That is very personal data, I love the product, and I'm glad to hear that it doesn't sell data from the horses mouth. You have to be vigilant these days. Thank you all for your answers.

[Obsydian]

Mate unless you spend 30 minutes manually saying no to all 3rd party access, you can't, most the time you have to, it supposedly does not include PIA ...

But just look at the Police Force for recent data leaks saying no PIA and then people names, birth dates, etc...