[MyData & Open Data] How activity trackers remove our rights to our most intimate data

Wed Jun 4 09:36:25 UTC 2014

Meanwhile, AXA, the global insurance company, has released an offer where
advantageous health insurance is bound to compulsory purchase of
self-tracking devices.
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/29556-aa-y-est-axa-conditionne-un-avantage-sante-a-un-objet-connecte.html

Long story short: AXA has launched a competition-like campaign aiming to
kitten up 1,000 of its clients with Withings Pulse. The target public is
the subscriber pool of AXA's health insurance program Modulango: if you are
among the 1,000 first subscribers to the program, you get a Pulse. Bonus:
if you when you get your Pulse, you can participate to a competition and
try to get as close as possible to the 10,000 steps/day. They give you
perks if you get to 7,000 and 10,000, respectively. According to the ToS,
if the person chooses to participate, s/he has to consent that the info
collected by the tracker (here, Withings Pulse) will be processed by
Withings too.

We thus have a case where an insurance company associates personal tracking
devices to health insurance offers. What would happen if the tracker tells
you are not doing enough of physical activity on a regular basis? Would
this turn you into a "bad client" and be used as a reason to not insure
you? Such a discussion is not new (hint: personalised medecine discussions,
especially with the surge of personal genomics).

Rayna

2014-06-04 10:44 GMT+02:00 Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org>:

> How activity trackers remove our rights to our most intimate data
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