Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees (www.nu.nl)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 8, 2016 @03:52AM from the tell-that-to-the-IRS dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Dutch Privacy Authority made it known today that companies are not allowed to gather their employees' health data from wearable devices [original, in Dutch] such as the Fitbit. Of the two companies that were mentioned in this case, one of them had access to employee sleep patterns. In both cases the employees had given their employers permission to use this data. However, according to the Privacy Authority it is impossible to truly give 'free consent' when there is a 'financial dependency.'

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Re:If obesity ever becomes a protected class by __aaclcg7560 · 2016-03-08 05:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Obese peoples do not grow bigger, they are still tiny under all that fat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered "morbidly obese" because of his BMI score. I'm sure he is very skinny under all that fat.

Bring back the bullies, cure child obesity, save the next generation.
The only thing bullies ever taught me was to stand up to them, hit them harder and hit them where it hurts the most. Bullies are cowards. They run when they get their ass handed back to them.