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Why health tracking apps create impossible choices

My health app tracks everything about my body and I love the data but I just found out my insurance company can buy this information and use it against me and I do not know whether to stop tracking or keep living in ignorance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The desire for self-knowledge through data conflicts with the reality that this same data can be weaponized against our interests.

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