This vision of the future puts your phone's sensor data in the hands of megacorporations. But what if you were in control of it?

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The "quantified self" movement uses technology to measure your biology, for the most part -- your heart rate, sleeping patterns, physical and mental performance and other data.

The problem with the "quantified self" is that many people don't want to think of themselves as, or treat themselves like, machines.