Delete your Fitbit account if you're worried about Google's takeover

You should download a copy of your data before you delete your account. — dpa

If you're one of Fitbit's 28 million active users, you may be concerned about your fitness and health data now that Google has bought the fitness wearables company.

Fitbit has promised that the user data it has collected will be neither sold nor used for advertising in the future, but consumer advocates are sceptical. Facebook made a similar promise when it acquired WhatsApp – and broke it two years later.