Forget Facebook — your body emits data that could be used to read your emotions, check your health, and track aggression
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- Forget Facebook's data-sharing. New technologies could soon make it possible for companies and institutions to passively track your emotions and health.
- Poppy Crum, the chief scientist at Dolby Labs, discussed these technologies during a talk at the annual TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
- "Imagine a high-school counselor realizing that outwardly cheery student is having a hard time...or the authorities knowing the difference between a mental health crisis and another kind of aggression," she said.
Even if you opt out of Facebook and all it's data-sharing tendencies, avoid using a smartphone, and generally stay off the internet, you're still emitting data every second of every day. As Poppy Crum, the chief scientist at Dolby Labs, demonstrated during a talk at the annual TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada, new technologies could soon make it possible for companies and institutions to track your emotions and health using this data.
While onstage, Crum showed the audience a frightening video. She then offered up a data visualization showing the carbon dioxide exhaled by people in the theater while the video played.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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