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The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literature

Wieczorek, Michał orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3688-9684, O'Brolchain, Fiachra orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5290-8772, Saghai, Yashar and Gordijn, Bert orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3686-8659 (2022) The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literature. Ethics & Behavior, 33 (4). pp. 239-271. ISSN 1050-8422

Abstract
This paper presents a literature review on the ethics of self-tracking technologies which are utilized by users to monitor parameters related to their activity and bodily parameters. By examining a total of 65 works extracted through a systematic database search and backwards snowballing, the authors of this review discuss three categories of opportunities and ten categories of concerns currently associated with self-tracking. The former include empowerment and well-being, contribution to health goals, and solidarity. The latter are social harms, privacy and surveillance, ownership control and commodification of data, autonomy, data-facilitated harm, datafication and interpretability of data, negative impact on relation to self and others, shortcomings of design, negative impact on health perception, and regulation and enforcement of rules. The review concludes with a critical analysis of the existing literature and an overview of a future research agenda that could complement the current work on ethics of self-tracking.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Self-tracking; Quantified Self; quantification; data; ethics
Subjects:Humanities > Philosophy
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Theology, Philosophy, & Music
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2022.2082969
Copyright Information:© 2020 The Authors. Open Access.
Funders:European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813497.
ID Code:27297
Deposited On:07 Jun 2022 09:59 by Michal Wieczorek . Last Modified 02 May 2023 13:32
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