Opting out of Digital Health

This project, funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Small Grants scheme, begins to document the immediate and potential long-term implications of health digitisation on privacy, data agency, and digital profiling by focusing on health Apps, their data policy, and the legal, techno-social possibilities and consequences of “opting out”. By taking opting out as an empirical possibility and a conceptual entry point, this project aims to shift social perspectives on health-related Apps and digital health more broadly, and to generate future discussions of the politics of bio data as Big Data.

Researchers:

• Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake, Sam Martin
• Student associate: Edward Johnson