# 2025-01753: Fitbit Fined $12M for Safety Snafus: Comment Before Judgment Day!

2025-01753, Proposed Settlement Agreement, Stipulation, Order and Judgement, etc.; Fitbit, LLC, is a Federal Register notice from Consumer Product Safety Commission published 2025-01-27, effective 2025-01-22; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01753
- As of: 2026-09-21
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-01753
- Title: Proposed Settlement Agreement, Stipulation, Order and Judgement, etc.; Fitbit, LLC
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 8201
- Published: 2025-01-27
- Effective: 2025-01-22
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-09-21

## In one line

Fitbit Fined $12M for Safety Snafus: Comment Before Judgment Day!

## Summary

Fitbit is settling with the Consumer Product Safety Commission by paying a $12.25 million fine to resolve safety concerns. This affects Fitbit users and the company, ensuring Fitbit improves product safety. People can comment on this deal until February 11, 2025.

## Abstract

The Commission publishes in the Federal Register any settlement that it provisionally accepts under the Consumer Product Safety Act. Published below is a provisionally accepted Settlement Agreement with Fitbit, LLC, containing a civil penalty in the amount of $12,250,000 subject to the terms and conditions of the Settlement Agreement. The Commission voted unanimously (5-0) to provisionally accept the proposed Settlement Agreement and Order pertaining to Fitbit, LLC.

## Effects PRIA read

- Fitbit Pays $12.25M Civil Penalty: benefit, low. Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12,250,000 in settlement of the matter. That payment must be made within 30 calendar days after Fitbit receives service of the Commission's final Order accepting the Agreement.
- Required Fitbit Compliance Program: benefit, medium. Fitbit must maintain a written compliance program to ensure Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) compliance for any Fitbit product sold or distributed in the U.S. The program must include written policies, claim-tracking systems, timely and accurate reporting procedures, employee training, confidenti…
- Recall of ~1.02M Fitbit Ionic Watches: benefit, medium. Fitbit previously announced a voluntary Fast Track recall of approximately 1.02 million Fitbit Ionic smartwatches on March 2, 2022, after at least 115 U.S. reports of batteries overheating and 78 U.S. reports of burn injuries (including two reports of third-degree burns and four reports of second-d…

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## Sources
- [2025-01753 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/27/2025-01753/proposed-settlement-agreement-stipulation-order-and-judgement-etc-fitbit-llc)
- [2025-01753 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-27/pdf/2025-01753.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01753 (as of 2026-09-21).