Colm O'Regan: I'm tracking my steps but I don't know what's being done with my data

Will my watch rat me out to the life insurance people if the tilt of my arms suggests that I’m wall-to-wall bags-of-cans at the moment?

Irish Examiner columnist, writer and comedian Colm O'Regan. Roger Kenny Photography Actor Head Shots www.rogerkenny.ie

Do you remember your first watch? How proud you were of it. No matter how basic it was, it still felt like a machine of wonder. Checking the time lots of times. Hours of entertainment measuring how long you could hold your breath for. Or when you got a Casio, how fast you could press the stopwatch twice.

Now I again have a watch I can’t stop checking. It’s almost wholesome compared to checking my phone because this watch tells me only good news: The thousands of steps I’m doing.