Episode 5 - Health
How does pregnancy lead to increased surveillance, especially for poor women? How is data on our bodies being used to police womanhood? In “Health” we look at some fantastic research into both of these issues, as well as getting into big questions like whose responsibility is health anyway, is self-care a con, and can fitness apps be fully anonymous?
References
Do poor women have privacy rights? Tanvi Misra
The Poverty of Privacy Rights, Professor Khiara M. Bridges.
Windrush scandal: Albert Thompson gets cancer treatment date, Amelia Gentleman
IAAF accused of ‘blatant racism’ over new testosterone level regulations, Andy Bull
Playful Heterotopias or Technologies of Control? Foucault, Governance, and Gamification. Jennifer R. Whitson (downloads a pdf)
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless, Laurie Penny
Supreme court backs minimum income rule for non-European spouses, Alan Travis
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Kashmir Hill
Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases. Jon Russell
City planners tap into wealth of cycling data from Strava tracking app. Peter Walker
What Makes Michael Phelps So Good? Adam Hadhazy
Wearables at work: the new frontier of employee surveillance, Sarah O’Conner
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