non solo socia media, anche i wearable stile Apple Watch ... Apple and Aetna Secretly Met to Discuss Adding Apple Watches to Health Insurance John Patrick Pullen<http://fortune.com/author/john-patrick-pullen/> Aug 14, 2017 <http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/apple-aetna-apple-watches-health-insurance/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=data-sheet&utm_content=2017081513pm#><http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/apple-aetna-apple-watches-health-insurance/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=data-sheet&utm_content=2017081513pm#> With the popularity of Fitbit's devices dropping<http://fortune.com/2017/06/05/fitbit-apple-watch-xiaomi-idc/>, Intel abandoning wearables<http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/intel-chips-wearables/>, and Jawbone liquidating its business<http://fortune.com/2017/07/07/big-money-and-big-bluster-couldnt-save-jawbone...>, it's been a very unhealthy summer for the fitness tracking industry. Apple<http://fortune.com/fortune500/apple/>, on the other hand, is looking good. According to recent research by IDC, Apple is neck-and-neck in a race with low-cost wearable maker Xiaomi for first place in fitness tracking.<http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS42707517> And Apple may have found a partner to push it ahead in the health insurance giant Aetna<http://fortune.com/fortune500/aetna/>. Apple and Aetna reportedly met in secret<https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/apple-aetna-secret-meetings-to-bring-apple-w...> last week to discuss bringing Apple Watches to Aetna's 23 million customers, reports CNBC. In Sept. 2016, Fortunereported that Aetna had agreed to subsidize a portion of the Apple Watch's cost<http://fortune.com/2016/09/27/insurer-apple-watch-fitbit/>to promote health, manage care, and monitor use of medication. It's not clear how the two industry giants' agreement may change moving forward, but the "invitation-only meetings" spanned last Thursday and Friday, and "included executives from Aetna and Apple as well as hospital chief medical information officers across the country," says the CNBC report. Rumors abound about the next Apple Watch, which could be unveiled in September alongside new iPhone hardware. The presumed "Series 3" version of the wearable is said to come with an LTE chip<http://fortune.com/2017/08/04/apple-watch-cellular-network/> that would let users wear it untethered from an iPhone. Speculation is that the yet to be announced Apple Watch could provide diabetes monitoring<http://fortune.com/2017/04/12/apple-diabetes-biomedical-tech-treatment/>, but the need for regulatory approval<http://fortune.com/2017/04/24/apple-watch-diabetes-sensor-fda/>of such a device makes that less likely, say experts. As secretive as Apple is about its planned products, it's unlikely that we'll know Apple Watch Series 3's full capabilities until it is released<http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/apple-watch-series-3/>. http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/apple-aetna-apple-watches-health-insurance/?ut... ________________________________ Da: nexa <nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it> per conto di J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> Inviato: sabato 12 agosto 2017 16:03 A: Nexa Oggetto: [nexa] "Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance industry…" Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance industry… …it’s not only the price you pay that will be affected This piece was written by PI research officer Dr. Tom Fisher. The financial services industry is eager to gather more and more data about our lives. Apart from mining the data they have historically collected such as credit history, they are looking to use our social media profiles to reach into our friendships and social interactions. They are using these data in new and unexpected ways, including personality profiling to determine the risk of lending to you, and thus the price you will pay. Firstcarquote, a product from the car insurance company Admiral Insurance, is a leading example of such unexpected data exploitation. In a semi-aborted product launch in November 2016, the company proposed to use young drivers’ Facebook posts to determine their personality and use this information to offer discounts on car insurance. Not limited to causing damage to its own reputation, Admiral’s move raises serious questions about the future of the insurance industry. […] Continua qui: https://medium.com/privacy-international/social-media-intelligence-and-profi... [https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*YkfiKHdSjCAGUcYrwZYVKQ.jpeg]<https://medium.com/privacy-international/social-media-intelligence-and-profiling-in-the-insurance-industry-4958fd11f86f> Social media intelligence and profiling in the insurance ...<https://medium.com/privacy-international/social-media-intelligence-and-profi...> medium.com The financial services industry is eager to gather more and more data about our lives. Apart from mining the data they have historically collected such as credit ...