Students forced to wear a Fitbit in a university!

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It is in the United States, in Tulsa Oklahoma, that the private Christian institution Oral Roberts University has opted for such a measure to ensure a stable and strict fitness program for its students to stay healthy.

While the school is already a highlight of physical education in its curriculum, and having begun to encourage the use of activity trackers with a Review in 2014, she says today his desire to join physical health to the success of his students by forcing them to have a Fitbit wrist since Autumn (just as Target had done before with his employees).

Previously, students had to manually report their sports statistics, and the automatic data transmissione brought by the sensors of quantified self of Fitbit thus provide a solution to this loss of time. A intelligent data center created by BrightSpace will be at the disposal of sports teachers to ensure them a good performance monitoring of their students, and if they are not active enough, to lower their grades. Thus, the next class of 900 registered will have to pay about $ 150 to acquire the smart health connected bracelet, already sold 550 copies.

What is nevertheless interesting is that the establishment has announced the establishment of a study throughout the year tending to prove a correlation between a healthy body and good exam results.

Such a decision nevertheless raises questions of preservation of privacy, when we know how much data can recover such devices, data GPS (but which will not be consulted according to the university) to the simple heartbeats : remember this man who had seen his Fitbit spot his breakup love!

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