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Is your phone checking your mental health?

We know how our smart phone usage enables companies to target us for sales and services by our phone usage pattern, but what if the algorithms were also checking our mental health?

Big Brother is watching you - how often have you heard that? Increasingly so perhaps, in light of the developing technology around smart phones

The cookies and algorithms working together to monitor what we're interested in, and then trying to sell us stuff

But could there be other, even more personal, aspects to the analysis of our tech data?

It's been reported that some tech companies are working on how the analysis could be used to determine our mental and physical health.

How would that work? Would it help people who would be reluctant to get medical help? What else could be done with the information gleaned? What are the ethical dimensions?

1 hour, 39 minutes

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Sun 21 Nov 2021 08:30

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  • Sun 21 Nov 2021 08:30