Fitbit has been fine $12.25 million as part of a settlement with a long-standing case with the Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding the Fitbit Ionic.

expand A Fitbit Watch wearable in San Francisco, Calif. on Jan. 2, 2024. The regulator and Fitbit jointly announced a recall of the Ionic smartwatches on March 2, 2022. Adam Pardee According to ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Fitbit has reached a settlement over claims that the company did not report ...

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 ...

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 ...

The civil penalty follows 115 reports of overheating, including injuries ranging from second to third-degree burns.

Although that information “reasonably supported” the idea that there was a defect in the watches that could create a ...

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 update in 2020 that was ...

Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to report an overheating issue with Ionic smartwatches, which caused burns to consumers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ...

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