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From Sleep Scores to State Surveillance: The Oura-DoD Connection

November 4, 2025By Marcela Rivera

Oura Health Oy, the Finnish company behind the wildly popular Oura Ring, has recently announced an expanded partnership with the United States Department of Defense (“DoD”).[i] The news sparked a wave of public concern over the ramifications of government involvement with individuals most intimate biometric data.[ii] Marketed as a lifestyle tool for better sleep and […]

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The Pilot’s Dilemma to “Get Help or Keep Your Job”: How Federal Law Creates a Lack of Access to Pilots’ Mental Health Care

April 16, 2024By Rosanne Sherman

There is an elephant in the cockpit. Pilots have described the elephant as “at best humiliating or embarrassing, at worst the end of our flying careers.”[i] The “elephant” is mental illness, which the general public has universally stigmatized. There is an increasing number of pilots flying while suffering from an untreated mental illness that […]

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From Sleep Scores to State Surveillance: The Oura-DoD Connection

The Pilot’s Dilemma to “Get Help or Keep Your Job”: How Federal Law Creates a Lack of Access to Pilots’ Mental Health Care