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

[Lancelot PECQUET]

Scary indeed...

Le 04/06/2014 11:36, Rayna a écrit :
> 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 
> <mailto:javier at openrightsgroup.org>>:
>
>     How activity trackers remove our rights to our most intimate data
>
>     http://gu.com/p/3pmph
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