[vader1]

This is terrible news. As if Google didn't know enough about you already - they will now be supplied with a 24/7 live feed of your most sensitive health statistics.

I'll be switching to a competitor and closing down my account there as soon as possible to hopefully prevent years of my historic data from being merged into the (ghost) profile Google has on me.

But at this rate it won't be long before there are simply no more competitors to FAANG left anymore. Actually enforcing antitrust laws, anyone, pretty please?

[chrisfinazzo]

To be fair, Apple does this too to some extent. However, given their most recent commercial re privacy and all of their public statements on the topic, I don't expect them to exploit it for profit quite so shamelessly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0acqg1oKc

[emmp]

Privacy as current corporate strategy is better than nothing, but it's not really good enough when you're talking about health data or other personal data that will still be highly sensitive for many 30-40 years on from now, when the entire board and leadership of the company and market will have changed in unpredictable ways. There's no true solution to long term uncertainty other than confirmed zero knowledge software and/or regulation.

[MBCook]

> they will now be supplied with a 24/7 live feed of your most sensitive health statistics.

In Apple land all health data stays on device, not in the cloud like Google/FitBit

[mercutio2]

In Apple-land, health data is synced to the cloud, but encrypted such that Apple doesn’t hold the keys in escrow; they’re peer-to-peer synced between your devices.

Similar impact from a privacy perspective (assuming crypto is unbreakable), but the data certainly is synced.

[chrisfinazzo]

True, and to the extent they would exploit it, this basically amounts to providing a good customer experience (b/c Health information is useful) so that you continue to buy into the ecosystem.

Sounds like a solid sales pitch to me.