Fitbit is facing the anger of some users

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Americans are fond of class actions. This time, Fitbit is paying the price, with users complaining that the heart rate sensors in their smart health connected wristbands are displaying "dangerously low" data. The principal denies the facts.

At CES last year, the giant Fitbit announced two smart health connected wristbands with a heart rate monitoring: the Fitbit Charge HR and the Surge. The new bracelet presented this year at the American event, and called Fitbit Blaze skips this feature, and it's obviously better like this: a group of frustrated users has formed in the United States to ask Fitbit damages and damages following heart rate measurements that would be abnormally low.

The plaintiffs claim that the pulse measured by Fitbit smart health connected wristbands would be lower than the reality, which would have played a trick on users with high blood pressure. Concrete case cited in the document, a user who would have had a pulse of 160 beats per minute, that the Fitbit bracelet would have measured at only 82 bpm. The life of this unfortunate user would have been endangered. No other example was explicitly mentioned in the report.

Fitbit is starting to gain experience with lawsuits, and is keeping a cool head: the US manufacturer has denied the allegations, saying 1 / its technology was good and 2 / it did not medically recognized to the point of being accountable for this case. Case to follow.

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