Fitbit Is Now Officially Profiting From Users’ Health Data | Betabeat “Fitbit has started to sell its trackers by the thousands to employers along with “sophisticated tracking software,” says a new report from Forbes. With employees’ permission,...

Fitbit Is Now Officially Profiting From Users’ Health Data | Betabeat

Fitbit has started to sell its trackers by the thousands to employers along with “sophisticated tracking software,” says a new report from Forbes. With employees’ permission, employers can then track their workers’ health, see how active individual employees are and foster a little healthy competition. Wiring up companies so that employers can monitor workers’ health is becoming “one of the fastest growing parts of Fitbit’s business,” Fitbit CEO James Park told Forbes.

betabeat.com

57 notes

Show

  1. metamn reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  2. octoperson-blog reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  3. brandclue reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  4. ridelikeafatkid reblogged this from nsukhu
  5. superdrivel reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  6. numberless reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  7. mcchris reblogged this from new-aesthetic and added:
    Great, the era of employer bio-surveillance is upon us!
  8. rollingoverandthrashingaround reblogged this from new-aesthetic and added:
    Of course, there’s absolutely no way his could turn coercive at all.
  9. catqueencole reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  10. onedream-slowly reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  11. greenmelange reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  12. kchayka reblogged this from new-aesthetic
  13. ballblom reblogged this from new-aesthetic