Structural Bias in Health App Design: Colonial Data Norms, Marginalized Exclusion, and Pathways to Equity

A trickster reading, invoking figures like Hermes and Anansi, exposes the paradox that health apps promise empowerment while simultaneously deepening dependence on corporate data monopolies; the trickster’s irony lies in celebrating ‘self‑quantification’ as liberation when it actually enacts a new form of biopolitical control. By highlighting this absurd edge, the trickster lens reveals how solemn discourses of innovation conceal the commodification of bodily autonomy, urging a playful yet critical re‑appropriation of health data.