Here we go...litigation starting using wearables data!

[dorelse]

Just read this on Forbes...yes its for the plaintiff's benefit, but there's a definite possibility for both sides to use this info:

Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom - Forbes

 

[DroidUser42]

You collect it, a lawyer will want it. Hard telling just how they might use it. Perhaps as a alibi? Proof that someone was relaxing around home when a violent murder took place?

 

[Poirots Progeny]

Just like their doing with young drivers in the UK, installing telemetry devices to observe good driving for cheap car insurance; I'm waiting for health insurance companies to start giving discounts if you're tagged with a fitbit or something.

This is all getting 1984 lol

 

[Poirots Progeny]

You collect it, a lawyer will want it. Hard telling just how they might use it. Perhaps as a alibi? Proof that someone was relaxing around home when a violent murder took place?

You're describing a control tag, an ankle bracelet. :/

 

[tgp]

I'm waiting for health insurance companies to start giving discounts if you're tagged with a fitbit or something.

Sounds good to me!

 

[Upstate Dunadan]

Sounds good to me!

Me too. Our company already charged you more if you smoke. A discount for doing things to be healthier makes sense to me.

 

[donkiluminate]

As someone who works in the health insurance field it's already being talked about and being shopped around by third parties

 

[dorelse]

I'm waiting for health insurance companies to start giving discounts if you're tagged with a fitbit or something.

We already get a discount at my work for this! I asked our HR VP if any data uploaded was company property or my property. At this years ABE (Annual Benefit Election) window it was my data, and was being encouraged so that we could manage our health better, ie, eat less, walk more, lose weight, etc.

However, we all know that's gonna change. My hope that I'll be able to manage it all independently so its not on some health insurers website, or company website, etc.