Generali holds fitness App that: Controversial App to fitness and nutrition … – Tagesspiegel

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The health insurer Generali wants to bring an app to market, monitors the health and diet of the insured, despite harsh criticism in 2016. Those who live healthy, to pay less.

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Despite sharp criticism from data and consumer protection keeps the insurance group Generali tight to their plans to monitor health insurance by special mobile programs and to give them as a reward for a healthy lifestyle discounts. “We anticipate that we will come in the first half 2016 with the first products on the market,” said a spokeswoman for the business newspaper “Euro am Sonntag”. In the Annual Report for 2014. Generali had targeted a start for the end of 2015.

End of solidarity or the beginning of a more equitable contribution assessment?

Generali had announced last November, for Germany a “behavior-based insurance model “to plan, will be collected at the data to fitness, nutrition and lifestyle through a special smartphone app. The Insurance Group thus triggered a storm of protest. Critics worry among other things about privacy. The Group spokeswoman confirmed now, data protection and transparency would “top priority”. But should the public debate “will be performed not only risk but also opportunity-oriented”. The private health insurer Allianz was the introduction of a fitness app rejected last week. “As tempting as that may sound to some, so wrong is the approach,” wrote the head of the Allianz insurance, Birgit König, in an article for the magazine “Wirtschaftswoche”. They also criticized the related data collection by the customer as disproportionate.

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