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by cheeze
1554 days ago
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Many people don't care about health data being monetized. I don't personally care if Strava sells my heart rate data or where I rode my bike today. I'm fine with trading them that data for their heat map, which is super useful in planning rides. To me, it comes down to me being fine with this data being considered public. If others don't want to share it, that's totally fine and I understand their perspective. For me though? I couldn't care less. Congrats, you sold some data that says I'm fat, out of shape, and don't like riding my bike on busy roads. |
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I can only imagine anyone buying the data does so only if they believe they can make more using the data. I don't think I know of anyone doing this now (not sure if there is regulation preventing this), but its not hard to imagine a eventuality where your health data/work out information can be used by your health insurance provider.
Imagine a scenario, your bmi is higher than normal and is trending higher in the past few months, so that increases your risk for x and hence your insurance premiums go up. Would you care then?