If you have a fitbit, no longer possible to avoid Google

https://sh.itjust.works/post/54447809

Google have owned Fitbit simce 2021

So it means there’s no reason to require a google account since they’ve shown it hasn’t needed one for 5 years.

It’s like all the RTO mandates. We’ve shown WFH works just fine for 5 years and kept your companies afloat, there’s no reason to pull people back in to the office now.

On the other hand - they could access that data all the time since they bought it. This just simplifies this a little bit to tie it to your “real” account and combine it with all the other data about you
They did access the data. Read about the Pebble IP fiasco.