Room: Stage L

Tega Brain, Surya Mattu

Many insurance companies, banks, airlines, and even universities now offer rewards to those who agree to wear fitness tracking devices and whose data show a certain levels of activity. These wearable technologies are deployed to collect very personal datasets and show that privacy is to become a costly luxury. Unfit Bits offers solutions for everyone, exploring the implications of the emerging uses of these biometric technologies and probing issues of data ownership, data collection in asymmetrical power relationships, privacy & the closed nature of activity tracking systems. Our carefully tested devices and methods enable you to author your own fitness datasets and qualify for rewards without the lifestyle to match. 

 

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