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Rune Labs clear to use Apple Watch to monitor Parkinson’s symptoms
Rune Labs receives clearance from the US FDA to use the Apple Watch to monitor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Read more…
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Wellness tech: trendy gadgets for the rich, or better health for everyone?
Wellness tech can help poor people with medical conditions, but the marketing is focused on affluent people living healthy lifestyles. Read more…
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Insurance companies must embrace user-held data models
Insurance companies want to use customer behavior data to set premiums, but this raises privacy concerns. User-held data models can help. Read more…
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Wellness and health wearables need open ecosystems to thrive
Wearables companies think they can succeed with closed ecosystems. History is against them – when data is king, openness is the way forward. Read more…
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APAC consumers don’t trust you with their personal data
Consumers increasingly dislike sharing personal data with digital services and are becoming less tolerant of companies that don’t protect it. Read more…
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MWC22 wrap: 4YFN steals the show
MWC22 is over. Wired: 4YFN, health tech, sports tech, Ukraine, data and young people. Tired: old guys and metaverse-washing. Read more…
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Give people the data they need to shift to sustainable lifestyles
Fighting climate change requires people to adopt sustainable lifestyles – data can show them that their actions are making a difference. Read more…
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Local and personal data are crucial to fight climate change
Data is a crucial component to research climate and nature, but we also need micro-level data to make people’s lives more sustainable. Read more…
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The metaverse is coming for your biometric and health data
Meta, Apple and Microsoft want to collect your biometric and health data. We need to change the way we deal with data before it’s too late. Read more…
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Human trust still matters in a trustless digital future
Some people see trustless models as the future of the Internet, yet human trust is still essential to digital services. Read more…
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We need more reliable data for better healthcare – wearables can help
It’s time to think about how wearables data can be better utilized for clinical trials, public health and healthcare overall. Read more…
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Digital giants own you now, but could it be very different tomorrow?
Governments still own or regulate infrastructure, but digital infrastructure is predominantly owned and managed by private digital giants. Read more…
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People are interested in protecting personal data, although some deny it
When we talk about privacy and personal data, we often hear that people don’t care. There is evidence that this is not always the case. Read more…
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Australia watchdog calls for powers to curb Google’s use of data to sell ads
Australia’s antitrust watchdog called for powers to curb Google’s use of internet data to sell targeted ads, joining other regulators. Read more…
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China’s CAC orders pre-IPO security review for firms with over 1m users
Cyberspace regulator CAC says any company with data for more than 1 million users must undergo a security review before listing overseas. Read more…
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What is hot at MWC21? (and it’s not just the weather)
The weather at MWC21 is much hotter than the usual February weather and there are some hot products, too, very different from other years. Read more…
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Individual private clouds and P2P services are coming
Individual users haven’t really used personal clouds, and the number of real P2P services is still quite limited. But this could soon change. Read more…
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Malaysian think tank backs OECD urgent call for private data access policy
Malaysian think tank SERI is backing the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy’s call to develop policy guidance on personal data. Read more…
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What is the real value of data? The answer is not so simple!
There have been many companies that have wanted to become data aggregators, collecting and selling data but that’s not where the value is. Read more…
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Wellbeing market change – matching real data with tangible instructions
People have more wearable devices but there is still a very weak link between data, wellbeing and training services. This will soon change. Read more…
