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Research, ethics and practice from the IN TRUTH team: measuring emotion from physiology, and what that should and should not be used for.
Measuring awe
Second results from the Biometric Peace Index. At a festival in Johannesburg, heart rate stayed about 9 bpm above baseline for three hours, journals stayed pleasant, and the moment of unity looked more like awe than peace.
Measuring peace
First results from the Global Peace Activation: a continuous measure of collective peace built from wearable heart data and journaled emotion.
Can your emotion data be used in court?
As AI wearables start to read our feelings, a new legal frontier is opening. Why treating emotion data as objective evidence is a dangerous trap.
How to use emotion data without giving up control
Wearables promise self-knowledge. Many of them quietly ship it somewhere else. A practical standard for keeping the signal yours.
The personalization trap
How AI knows just enough to control you. The more data it collects, the less agency you have.