Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing Dr. Rachael Kent

Digital Health Diagnosed Episode 11: Fighting Tech Giants - Coll v. Google with Liz Coll



This second part to Episode 3 Fighting Tech Giants - Kent V. Apple, examines Liz Coll's precedent-setting against Google - Coll v. Google.



Dr. Kent and Ms. Coll also talk about their experiences of leading on these cases of such magnitude where collectively they are seeking more than £2.5bn in damages from Apple and Google!



Liz Coll is the class representative in the case brought by Hausfeld. Liz’s claim is on behalf of all UK consumers and businesses who have spent money on digital content within the UK version of the Google Play Store.



Liz alleges that Google has breached competition law by excluding competition and/or charging an unlawful level of commission on digital purchases in the Google Play Store. As a result, consumers and businesses are very likely to have suffered financial loss and may be entitled to damages of around £1bn!!!



Liz Bio

Liz is a consumer tech policy expert with over thirteen years’ experience of campaigning for consumers’ rights online. At Citizens Advice and Consumer Focus she led work on critical issues for consumers in the digital world like data privacy, smart home devices and online reviews. She went on to establish a global digital programme at Consumers International, where she led advocacy and research into e-commerce, consumer internet of things, AI, data privacy and the impact of platforms on consumers’ access to choice, redress and fair treatment. She has represented consumer interests at national and global policy forums including the OECD and the G20. As an independent consultant, she works with international policy makers, consumer groups and standards setters, sits on EU technology standards committees and is a strategic advisor to the UK’s Consumer and Public Interest Network. As of January 2024, Liz is also an appointed member of the LSB Legal Services Consumer Panel.



Follow the links below for more information on Coll v. Google:


Coll v. Google Website:

https://appstoreclaims.co.uk/Google



Competition Appeal Tribunal Website

https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/14087721-elizabeth-helen-coll



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Digital Health Diagnosed Episode 10: Sex Tracking with Sex-Tech Expert Dr. Rebecca Saunders dives into the intriguing realm of consent apps, sex, and intimacy tracking!!!



Host Dr. Rachael Kent and Dr. Saunders explore the intersection between desire, quantifying pleasure, and tracking sex uncovering how technology is shaping our experience and understanding of intimacy.



We discuss the opportunities and problematic justification for consent apps, when data might hinder our sexual experience or for those with sexual trauma, how these tools might provide a valuable and supportive tool for intimacy.



Dr Rebecca Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at Cardiff University, in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture. 

Her research focuses on body politics, and the impact of digital technologies on sexual culture and labor. Her first monograph Bodies of Work: the Labour of Sex in the Digital Age analysed how information and attention economies have impacted the evolution of pornographic film: both heteronormative, misogynistic output from major studios and trans and queer pornography. 

Her recent publications and current research project looking at the phenomenon of ‘sex tech’, such as sex tracking apps and smart sex toys.



'Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing'⁠ is the first evidence-based podcast to diagnose how technology impacts your health!


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Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing Episode 9 - The Behavioural Science of Marketing with Millena Co-Founder Henry Arkell.



This episode examines what behavioural science is and how it shapes digital marketing and consumer choices and behaviours today. Henry Arkell and host Dr. Rachael Kent explore how the agendas of the tech giants have used behavioural science as a driving force behind some seismic societal and real-world changes we've seen over the past 15 years. We chat through elections, Brexit, the Trump administration, big brands funding 'terror', and some data breach horror stories.



This episode explains how the tech giants monetize our personal data and how this is used for digital marketing and recommendation algorithms. We chat through privacy invasions, data mining, tech addiction, and surveillance scares as we understand how (and more importantly why) digital platforms continue to circumnavigate data protection and stay one step ahead of the institutions that fail to regulate them!



Henry Arkell is the Co-founder of MILLENA - a boutique marketing and media consultancy based in London. For the past 16 years, he’s worked directly with 150+ of the world’s leading brands, investing $ 100M of their advertising spend via the major digital platforms.



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Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Episode 8 - Suicide Awareness and Living With Grief With Ben West.


In this powerful episode, Ben West and host Dr. Rachael Kent (@drdigitalhealth) both share their close experiences of death and trauma in their family, and how they have learned to live with their grief.


Ben West lost his brother Sam to suicide when he was 17, and Rachael her mother suddenly when she was 22. Exposing the raw vulnerability of Ben and Rachael, this episode dives into these traumatic experiences, raising awareness of suicide, destigmatizing mental illness, and depression, as well as normalizing talking about death and grief in our everyday life.


Ben West has dedicated his life since losing Sam to breaking down stigmas related to mental health and suicide through his incredible activism in this space. Dr. Kent is passionate about using technology to normalize talking about death and grief and has published extensively in this area. She is focused on giving people tools and an understanding of how to do this for their own therapeutic journey as well as to better support their loved ones in grief.


Ben West is an activist and mental health campaigner, committed to making real change around mental health in our society. Author of ”This Book Could Save Your Life”, at 20 years old Ben has already won a Pride of Britain Award, The Diana Award, and the Mental Health Hero Award as part of The Sun Who Cares initiative.


Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing⁠ is the first evidence-based podcast to diagnose how technology impacts your health!


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Digital Health Diagnosed Episode 7: Who Owns Your Data?! Privacy & Consumer Rights with CEO, App Developer, and Consumer Activist James Walker.



In this episode, we analyze how our personal data gets monetized, who owns our data, what we should be worried about when it comes to privacy, and what are the key issues facing consumers and users of digital apps today.



Dr. Rachael Kent (@drdigitalhealth) and James Walker dive deep into data breach horror stories. Does privacy exist anymore if we use apps to manage our everyday lives? We explore what regulation do we need to protect consumers' personal data, and should the government be doing more? Or is there a better way to control your data? We finish up with top tips for consumers on how to be careful with their personal data, and protecting their privacy!



James Walker is the Founder of both Resolver and Jamdoughnut, currently CEO of Rightly helping consumers to effectively use their data and also serving as a board member for Consumer Scotland and the Dispute Resolution Ombudsman and on the consumer panels for Civil Aviation Authority and the Office of Rail and Road, as well as on the Civil Justice Council. Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing⁠ is the first evidence-based podcast to diagnose how technology impacts your health!



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Has anxiety or ADHD social media self-diagnosing gone too far? Or are you a victim of 'conspirituality' (spirituality, wellness, and conspiracy theories)?



Unraveling the dark side of social media and its influence on health find out how social media is hijacking our health with Dr. Rachael Kent (@drdigitalhealth) and Maxine Ali on Episode 6 of Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing.



Maxine Ali is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at King’s College London. Maxine's research interests broadly encompass the intersections between language, culture and health, with a focus on health communication on social media. Her media contributions include Happiful, BBC News, inews, Refinery29, and Women's Health UK, and she appeared in the BBC Three documentary Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con.



Digital Health Diagnosed: Your Dose of Tech Wellbeing⁠ is the first evidence-based podcast to diagnose how technology impacts your health!



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