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Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification (edit)
Revision as of 00:13, 17 July 2022
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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. Employers 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 and semantic analysis. Also conversations can be summarized with deep learning and emotions detected<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.<ref>https://zerforschung-org.translate.goog/posts/datenabfluss-auf-rezept/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc</ref>
Most consumers already give lots of data to companies, such as their location via GPS, social media, and their search and browsing history.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NEEmQDVLI</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUTX1jurJ4</ref> Employers 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 and semantic analysis. Also conversations can be summarized with deep learning and emotions detected<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.<ref>https://zerforschung-org.translate.goog/posts/datenabfluss-auf-rezept/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc</ref>
Never the less, self trackers can make more data available. In particular, many devices measure stress and [[Mood]] through [[Tools for heart rate or pulse|heart rate]] and [[Galvanic skin response]], kind of like a polygraph<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph</ref>.
Never the less, self trackers can make more data available. In particular, many devices measure stress and [[Mood]] through [[Tools for heart rate or pulse|heart rate]] and [[Galvanic skin response]], kind of like a polygraph<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph</ref>.