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==== Health tracking presents privacy concerns ====

==== Health tracking presents privacy concerns ====

Most consumers already give lots of data to companies, such as their location via GPS, social media, and their search and browsing history. Employees already monitor employee health to optimize the performance of their employees. It is possible to do basic cognitive and psychological assessment via background things like speed of typing, semantic analysis and emotion detection<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_recognition</ref> via cameras. Never the less self trackers can make much more data available.   

Most consumers already give lots of data to companies, such as their location via GPS, social media, and their search and browsing history. Employees already monitor employee health to optimize the performance of their employees. It is possible to do basic cognitive and psychological assessment via background things like speed of typing, semantic analysis and emotion detection<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_recognition</ref> via cameras. Companies regularly hoard customer data, sell it to 3rd party aggregators, and get hacked. Never the less self trackers can make much more data available.   

Self tracking user has some options for defense. Data protection regulations grow.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation] [[Commercial, Medical Device, or Open Source|Open source]] apps are under your complete control and will not mind if the device its on never connects to the internet. Government classified [[Commercial, Medical Device, or Open Source|Medical Devices]] make medical data and that data is under far more protection than basic commercial device data. This wiki will note open source tools and tools with exceptional demand or lack there of for user data.

Self tracking user has some options for defense. Data protection regulations grow.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation] Data can be anonymized, though often its not hard to deanonymize it. [[Commercial, Medical Device, or Open Source|Open source]] apps, and some commercial ones, are under your complete control and will not mind if the device its on never connects to the internet. Government classified [[Commercial, Medical Device, or Open Source|Medical Devices]] make medical data and that data is under far more protection than basic commercial device data. This wiki will note open source tools and tools with exceptional demand or lack there of for user data.

==== Choosing, setting up, and connecting user's selection of apps and devices can be quite a bit of work. Or expensive. ====

==== Choosing, setting up, and connecting user's selection of apps and devices can be quite a bit of work. Or expensive. ====