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I was under the impression that Apple Health is designed so that Apple itself doesn't have access to this data, even in aggregate. Is that not the case?
by cbhl 7y ago
I was under the impression that Apple Health is designed so that Apple itself doesn't have access to this data, even in aggregate. Is that not the case?
- Shank 7y agoThat's the case. The only way that they would get this is through a research study with explicit consent/opt-in.
- dogma1138 7y agoWith the current legal limitations yes, but even with an opt-in they likely would get enough data to be valuable to researchers especially if people also opt-in to share location data.
- dogma1138 7y agoThe data still exists even it’s just on the phone/watch I have years of historic health data form multiple devices which I would gladly share with PHE or the NHS and any other health agency local or not if it will be useful to them.
- ceejayoz 7y agoYou can opt-in to sharing data via the Apple Research app. https://www.apple.com/ios/research-app/ https://www.apple.com/ios/research-app/
- cobookman 7y agoThey could issue a software update that changes this.
- ferongr 7y agoIt's closed source software, it could do either thing.