It was during the first few days of protest that I joked the best way to get my complacent peers to picket was to convince them it would create great numbers on their fit bit. Multitasking at its finest right? It wasn’t until the 4th day of strike that I realized I my own phone was roughly tracking my steps when it was on my body. 
At first I felt a terrible pride in the numbers. They were my numerical evidence of my labor. I had not sought these numbers out but here they were! ready for me to enjoy and bask in. But I did feel gross. I felt myself reducing my work to the numbers and felt I was playing the capital production game of which i’m always trying to work away from. I was enjoying it.
Furthermore: I had never used this app before. I had no idea that it was enabled. when I first turned it on I did not give it access to my location: but it is still tracking movement of some kind even though it is not a GPS related tracking system. Is this data safe within this app? is it just on my phone or is it in a cloud of data without my knowledge. I was further disturbed by this when I realized that I don’t know what half the apps on my phone do. I am currently in the process of evaluating what is useful and what I feel violates my consent bc I had no knowledge of it’s functioning.