Don’t worry about the NSA tracking what you get up to, worry about your university. A program at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma requires first year students to wear Fitbits — and share their data. According to NBC News, the program requires ‘incoming freshmen’ to wear a Fitbit and share both step count and heart rates with the university. The data can affect student grades, where one component grades on their level of aerobic activity. The university argues that this is just an upgrade from an existing system as students formerly needed to enter the data by hand in a logbook, but now it’s…
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