With fitness trackers in the workplace, bosses can monitor your every step - and possibly more

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12. An issue that really annoyed public school teachers

last year in WV. In order to use their healthcare, they were told they had to start sending daily data about their waist measurement and other fitness info. to their health co. by phone. With other issues it pushed them to walk out I read.

The insane quest for 'data' is endless.

- Francis Galton, British statistician and eugenics movement pioneer. Galton devoted much of the rest of his life to exploring variation in human populations and its implications, at which Darwin had only hinted. In doing so, he established a research program which embraced multiple aspects of human variation, from mental characteristics to height; from facial images to fingerprint patterns. This required inventing novel measures of traits, devising large-scale collection of data using those measures, and in the end, the discovery of new statistical techniques for describing and understanding the data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton