Smartphones will begin categorizing users’ mental health; gun seizures will follow

Wednesday, January 21, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Digital Age has produced some remarkable technology and will continue to do so, but as each new innovation springs forth, more of us are finding that we are not as comfortable with it as we once thought we might be.

One of the latest examples comes from a new iPhone app that appears capable of gauging one’s mental health — though how accurately it can do so remains questionable, as does what authorities might do with such information.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal:

Toward the end of Janisse Flowers’s pregnancy, a nurse at her gynecologist’s 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 firm’s analysts said they found that behavioral patterns like decreased mobility and lengthened phone calls became linked with poor overall mood in the surveys.

Designed to track and flag behavior

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