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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. Shorter list - what Google doesn't want to monitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here it is:

  2. Hooray! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I, for one, definitely can't imagine how a plan by one of the world's more prominent advertising and 'consumer analytics' outfits to gather personal information about a heavily stigmatized class of disorders through a channel that will allow them to avoid any restrictions that might have applied to 'protected health information' could possibly go wrong. Seems like a great idea.