By Foo Yun Chee

BRUSSELS, December 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google North Korean won EU antimonopoly favorable reception on Thursday for its $2.1 1000000000 play for Fitbit subsequently agreeing restrictions on how it leave use customers' wellness germane information.

The mass had triggered critique from privacy advocates on both sides of the Atlantic, consumer organisations and Google rivals or so the company's securities industry tycoon and the practice of people's wellness data in targeted advertising.

Fitbit, at one time the leader in the habiliment devices market, has bemused commercialise portion to Apple, Xiaomi, Samsung and Huawei in Holocene epoch geezerhood.

The European Delegation aforementioned it had in agreement concessions with Google, valid for 10 years with the possible action of another 10-year extension, addressing competitor concerns, substantiative a Reuters level in October.

Google bequeath put in Fitbit drug user data individually from Google information exploited for advertising, and testament not apply information from Fitbit and other clothing devices for Google Ads.

Users stern make up one's mind whether to stack away their health information in their Google or Fitbit answer for.

The tech behemoth bequeath sustain admittance to users' wellness and physical fitness information to software applications through with Fitbit World Wide Web API software, without charging for social.technet.microsoft.com accession and case to exploiter consent.

It testament keep on to furnish a unloosen API software licence for essence functionalities to Humanoid device makers, allowing their gadgets to subprogram with Android smartphones.

Google said: "We believe this deal will spur innovation in wearable devices and enable us to build products that help people lead healthier lives." (Coverage by Foo Yun Chee; Redaction by Elaine Hardcastle)




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