My family signed up for a health insurance plan that requires fitness tracking and app-based monitoring to get affordable rates, but my teenage son refuses to participate saying it violates his bodily autonomy and human rights. The insurance company is threatening to raise our premiums dramatically and we can't afford it, but I'm starting to think he's right that this is coercive and wrong.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family discovers that economic necessity is being used to strip away fundamental rights to privacy and bodily autonomy.
“Where Are You with Digital rights as human rights?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.