[tejaswiy]

If enough people subscribe to the idea, this might become the standard operating procedure and you won't even have the option of saying no.

[noja]

People will not "subscribe to the idea", it's all about money.

It's the standard trick: the company will offer temporarily lower prices, then once enough people are onboard, increase them again.

The company sets a new normal, gets all your fitness data, the people get a temporary price reduction, and lose their privacy.

[Jach]

Fortunately such a tracking mechanism ought to be trivial to automate. People went to some pretty fun lengths just for Pokemon Go, when there's financial incentive and prizes involved...

[wlesieutre]

Yeah but now it's insurance fraud

[jakeogh]

Another way to look it is a direct attack on open hardware and software. It's not open if you cant legally modify it.

[wlesieutre]

The insurance company never claimed it was open, I don't see how that's relevant.

If they can prove you were cheating the fitness tracker they can deny the insurance claim when you die. Not great for any family members who were counting on that.

[dogma1138]

Still insurance fraud and a good way to allow the insurance company to dodge out of coverage.

[sandworm101]

Those of us in free countries, those with proper national health care, sure will.

[NeedMoreTea]

The same countries, like the UK, where most motor insurers are well on the way to requiring in-car black boxes? Even the AA and RAC, that once could have been relied on to take a stance against such a thing, now offer telematics insurance.

[blang]

This is for life insurance, which is a very different product than health insurance.

Health insurance is something that pays for things continuously while you are alive to keep you alive and healthy.

Live insurance pays your beneficiaries (usually people that depend on your salary) when you die.