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Google Wants To Monitor Your Mental Health (telegraph.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the feeling-lucky-and-well-adjusted dept.

New submitter Alypius writes: Dr Tom Insel, the head of the NIH, will be joining Google Life Sciences to research how wearable technology, already used for monitoring physical activity and sleep, can be expanded to cover mental health issues such as depression. Dr. Insel will also be researching how to integrate tech to monitor other aspects of day-to-day living such as calorie and alcohol consumption.

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  1. How innovative by Rising+Ape · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the past, believing that powerful global forces were watching your every action would have been evidence of paranoia. So I'd like to commend Google for effectively treating that delusional belief by turning it into a rational fear, and thus no longer a mental illness.