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I'm not telling Google will sell 'X person is/may suffer from Y disease' to the health insurers, they needn't even do that. The key term to note from my statem
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
I'm not telling Google will sell 'X person is/may suffer from Y disease' to the health insurers, they needn't even do that.
The key term to note from my statements are -
> Already discriminatory
•I wouldn't be surprised if the health insurers are already getting email ids of those who land in medical sites by searching for an ailment, Aren't email ids are even visible to the website if they had just implemented 'Sign in' and the user had already signed in the browser?
•I have reasons to believe that they are collecting patient data from the hospitals directly from my lengthy conversations with the people from insurance company. There is no HIPAA here.
Any additional data from health-tech, even if indirectly to just target advertisements could be used as an ammunition for further discrimination by parallel construction bypassing anti-discriminatory guidelines/laws from the Govt.(like they're already doing).
Of course insurers can collect health-tech data without direct access to the device through their own app, Say 'We need permission to access health data from X app for 5% discount in premium' would not invoke resistance from those who don't know that they are falling into a greater pit.
- henearkr 6y agoTo reassure you on the point #1, no that would not make sense given the huge number of people browsing random ailments either by hypocondria or by mere curiosity. Honestly at this point I would have no more health cover whatsoever, as I am a big consumer of random bits of medical knowledge.