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Well, you say that, but given the arrangement, is it? By taking on a viager you effectively act as pension and actuarial agent - and knowing the health of your

• onion2k 11y ago
  I wasn't suggesting no one should have access to other people's data. If there's a good reason, such as informing the basis of a contract in the case of a medical to get health insurance, then both parties benefit - one gets to understand the risk they're undertaking and the other gets insurance. So long as the person having the medical understands what they're handing over that's fine. What I take issue with is the assumption that any data that could be analysed for some marginal good should be openly available. Data is hugely powerful and incredibly valuable, so we need to take individual privacy in to great consideration. In the case of this old lady the tangible benefits of her data being analysed is so tiny (it's not a controlled study, there's no rigour to 'using a fitbit', and it's a such a small sample size of literally 1 person that any hope of anonymity is impossible) that her privacy is far more important than any possible insight in to ageing that the data might give us.