This data may be used by health insurance companies to decide how much your premiums cost
The data captured by your FitBit or health monitoring app may be used for more than simply encouraging you to increase your step count.
Director Brett Gaylor travels to the outskirts of Paris where four young roommates try out fitness trackers for the first time and allow him to monitor their health data. He finds out much more about their lives than they were expecting — what time they go to bed, when they go to the convenience store for a late night snack, and who’s sleeping with whom.
But what happens when the data is obtained by third-party companies? Some health insurance companies and corporate “wellness” programs are asking clients to share health data obtained from fitness trackers. But that data could be used to make decisions about how much your health insurance should cost and whether or not they will insure you at all.
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