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Most of us have a “wearable graveyard” — the drawer where our fitness trackers go when they stop fitting our lives.
Not because we lost motivation… but because the device lost relevance.
I just wrote about why that keeps happening — and what needs to change.
When companies lock down repairs, they lock down our freedom.
Gay Gordon-Byrne and I dive into the #RightToRepair movement—and why it’s about more than fixing broken tools. It’s about ownership, equity, and power.
🎧 Listen: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/you...
#TermsOfService #RepairRights
Plot twist: We engineered a capital structure that makes keeping our promise MORE profitable than breaking it.
35%+ IRR + contractual privacy protection = the math finally works.
Full story 👇 cirdia.com/blog/the-governance-problem-disguised-as-a-privacy-prob-OJp7o2BZQke/
The $150B wellness wearables market has a dirty secret: every company eventually optimizes away their privacy promises for a high-multiple exit.
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The Jury is in. Meta found liable for intentionally intercepting menstrual health data from millions of Flo users via the embedded SDKs. The cost could be in the Billions.
My take on what this means for trust in wellness tech → cirdia.com/blog/when-co...
#FloApp #DataPrivacy #Femtech #HealthTech
Small design choices can shift power back to users.
I spoke with Eriol Fox & Molly Wilson on making privacy usable, supportive & human.
🎧 Listen: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/des...
#Privacy #UXDesign #DigitalRights
You don’t build trust with words. You build it by how you respond when things go wrong.
David Bray gets this.
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#Leadership #Accountability #TermsOfService
The first Cirdia day devices are on wrists. That feels big.
We put together a short video showing how we got here—from design renders to wearability testing.
No rush. Just rhythm.
📰 Watch here: cirdia.com/blog/on-our-...
#Cirdia #FounderNotes #Wearables #PrivacyFirst
In uncertain times, we need leaders who trust.
David Bray shares what that looks like—especially when the pressure’s on.
🎧 Listen: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/mis...
#TermsOfService #PublicService #Resilience
Dr. David Bray joined me to talk AI, trust, and what it means to lead in the middle of a storm.
We covered: fear, systems, agency—and what comes after collapse.
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#TermsOfService #Leadership #DigitalTrust
Shared some thoughts on why we’re using Kickstarter at Cirdia—and what that decision really says about how we want to build.
📰 Full post here: cirdia.com/blog/why-kic...
💬 Curious if you’d join a live Q&A with us soon. Let me know.
#Cirdia #WellnessTech #Transparency
Too many of us have accepted discomfort as normal. It doesn’t have to be.
"Built for Her" shares how your feedback is shaping Cirdia — and why we’re inviting you into the Inner Circle to keep building from lived experience.
cirdia.com/blog/built-f...
76 workdays to read all your annual privacy policies?
William McGeveran breaks down the absurd logic behind privacy policies we’re never meant to read.
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#PrivacyLaw #TermsOfService #DigitalTrust
I read every privacy policy I could get my hands on. The patterns were alarming—and personal.
This post explains why we built Cirdia to never upload your intimate body data. Ever.
Why are we still pretending people read privacy policies?
William McGeveran and I dig into what digital consent actually means (and why it often doesn’t).
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#Privacy #TermsOfService #DigitalSystems
You don’t need to be an expert to ask smart questions about the tech you use.
Marisa Zalabak shares how even small questions can help us take back control.
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#TermsOfService #AIEthics #DigitalAgency
When your smart assistant says “I’m sorry,” is it empathy—or just programming?
I spoke with AI ethicist + psychologist Marisa Zalabak about synthetic empathy, emotional trust in bots, and how our habits are shifting in quiet but powerful ways.
🎧 Listen here: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/whe...
Can you prove you’re human?
And if it’s a bot, how do you know it represents who it claims to?
These are the big questions we’re tackling at MEF CONNECTS Identity & Wallets tomorrow.
#Identity #AI #DigitalWallets
Research should work with communities—not just be about them.
@eleag.bsky.social shares how people can have real agency in how they're represented, how data is collected, and what change they want to see.
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#TermsOfService #DigitalRights #CitizenScience
Speaking at MEF CONNECTS Identity & Wallets in London on 14th May.
In a world of AI agents and bots, how do we know who we’re really engaging with—and what trust even looks like?
A timely and necessary conversation.
Data is never just data.
@eleag.bsky.social shares how a pile of paper became a turning point—reminding her that inside every dataset is a person.
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#DigitalEthics #TermsOfService #HumanRights
@eleag.bsky.social joins me to talk citizen science, community-driven research & tech that serves the public good.
🎧 Tune in to our conversation: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/bey...
#TermsOfService #TechEthics #CitizenScience
AI can generate answers—but does it create wisdom?
Mei Lin Fung challenges how we think about intelligence, understanding, and AI’s real limitations.
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#AI #Wisdom #CriticalThinking
Mei Lin Fung calls this moment The Great Disruption—a shift as big as the Great Depression but driven by global connectivity. We talk about tech, wisdom, and building resilient societies.
🎧Listen the full episode here: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/the...
This is so cool! I love that this was created in Madrid, my hometown. Such a great example of local governance.
I recall a decade ago when that a California city went bankrupt when council members voted to pay themselves extreme salaries/pensions.
I had little empathy for residents—SHOW UP!
New on the Cirdia blog: "When My Data Wasn't Really Mine"
I share the frustrating moment I lost 3 years of carefully tracked fitness data.
Your heartbeat and sleep patterns aren't just data points—they're parts of your life that should remain firmly in your control.
cirdia.com/blog/when-my...
The way we interpret Darwin shapes law, politics & climate action. Helen Holden Slottje exposes the hidden forces driving our systems—and how to rethink them."
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🚨 Your Data Isn't Yours.
Most wellness technology tracks every heartbeat, every step, and even your stress levels.
What happens to that data?👇 A thread:
1/ Most people don't realize that their biometric data is being commodified by big tech.
Helen Holden Slottje helped 200+ communities push back against fracking. We discuss legal activism, breaking rigid systems & shifting power.
🎧 Listen: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/bre...
