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by jackweirdy 3163 days ago
Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk).

Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it

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Just get a dog and tie it to their collar.

I'm joking of course, I do not condone insurance fraud.

In this case, you probably should :-)
First they have to know or infer with reasonable certainty that you have a fitness tracker to even attempt a further inference that you're not sharing the data because you're lazy. So if they somehow can profile you well enough to know that you already lost the privacy game.
Not at all; it's in their best interests to lump the "no data provided" bucket somewhere around the average, perhaps below as an incentive to provide the data. They don't have to know if you have a fitness tracker at all to enact such a policy.