Fitbit failed to promptly report a burn hazard with its Ionic smartwatches and will pay $12.25m in penalties. U.S. Consumer ...

But Fitbit did not voluntarily recall the Ionic smart watch until March 2, 2022. By then, the commission said, Fitbit had received at least 174 reports globally of the lithium-ion battery’s ...

More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...

Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries ...

The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surrounding its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit ...

There were 78 reports of burn injuries in the U.S., starting in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The Fitbit watch company has been fined ...

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Fitbit LLC, which is now owned by Google, has been fined $12.25 million to settle claims by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency said in a news release on Thursday, Jan. 23. The ...

Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million penalty to settle issues related to its Ionic smartwatch, which was subject to a recall in March 2022. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ...

The Ionic smartwatches ... Despite having information that supported that the watch had a defect, Fitbit failed to report it immediately to the CPSC, the agency said. Fitbit issued a software ...

Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, smartwatch maker Pebble ...

Best Fitbit smartwatch: This advanced fitness watch has built-in GPS and can track ... sensor (also found in the Charge 3, Versa, and Ionic). The sensor helps you understand your sleeping patterns.