[shadowtree]

A for-profit company will sell or hand-over data at the government's request anyway. Apple's stance on encryption of phones is nice, but once health data is on a server, nothing matters.

Anything cloud is government property, just like all financial data. Now, if your health data starts in state owned DBs, like say in Germany, there is a fighting chance the data will stay in Germany.

Once it is in a global cloud like AWS, GC, Azure? Any major government has access.

China bought so much data already, and with recent enforcement of their Cybersecurity laws, all data touching their citizens is fair game. Oracle pulled out of China, other like AWS go the route of joint ventures to continue operating.

[kgin]

Apple Health data is stored on the phone only. It would end up in encrypted iCloud backups of the phone, which would put it in the government requesting all your data with a warrant situation. It’s not an easily accessible thing.