On Owning Your Data

I step on a bathroom scale and my body fat percentage gets beamed to a server in Shenzhen. This is the arrangement. In exchange for this intimacy, the app suggests I upgrade to premium, which I find touching in a way the developers probably didn&rsquo;t intend. I don&rsquo;t have a problem with companies making money — I have a problem with the default. The default is: your body&rsquo;s…