****BIRTH PANG WATCH***** Choose your APPS wisely....they are being used against you. As reported by The Wall Street Journal: Toward the end of Janisse Flowerss pregnancy, a nurse at her gynecologists office asked her to download an iPhone app that would track how often she text messaged with friends, how long she talked on the phone and how far she traveled each day. The app was part of an effort by Ms. Flowers s health-care provider to test whether smartphone data could help detect symptoms of postpartum depression, an underdiagnosed condition affecting women after they give birth. The app was developed by Ginger.io, Inc., a San Francisco-based firm that says it compared data from Flowers and nearly 200 other women against answers given for a weekly survey used to diagnose depression. The firms analysts said they found that behavioral patterns like decreased mobility and lengthened phone calls became linked with poor overall mood in the surveys.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:57:05 +0000
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