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Now if they would only promise not to sell off your personal health data. Call me skeptical, but there has to be some negative consequence for giving this kind

Now if they would only promise not to sell off your personal health data. Call me skeptical, but there has to be some negative consequence for giving this kind of personal info out in the future. I imagine it being like, "Sorry sir, your health record indicates you were sick 5 times last year. You're a health risk, so we can't hire you". "Your elevated testosterone levels indicate that you'll be an overly-aggressive employee.." Anywho... Cool video, right?

rmxt 12y ago
My thoughts immediately strayed to the same notion. From the FAQ, however: Your data will be stored on your phone, and you decide how long you want to store your data, if at all. You are the only person that has access to your data. You can choose to share the data with your doctor, your family, or your friends. You are in control of your data, and how you use it is entirely up to you. As a first customer, you will be invited to take part in a usability study and provide feedback and anonymized data to our company as an important part of Cue’s path to FDA approval. You may opt out of this at any time. And, with respect to selling: Absolutely not. Your data belongs to you. Data collected using Cue machines are linked to your smart phone solely. Again, you are the only person that has access to your data. Yes, yes, TOS and privacy policies can change at any time, but this is a quite bit more forthright statement about data, than say the Microsoft Band/Strava/Fitbit/etc. My reading of it is that it's never uploaded to any sort of remote cloud storage. EDIT: The more that I think about it, and the more features that I see that the app has, I'd have to guess that there may be some sort of catch down the line in the above statement. Perhaps your blood work data is never transferred to their servers, but analytic gathering is probably going to take place based on your location, meal planning, exercise records, etc., even if only for "recommendations for you".
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My thoughts immediately strayed to the same notion. From the FAQ, however: Your data will be stored on your phone, and you decide how long you want to store your data, if at all. You are the only person that has access to your data. You can choose to share the data with your doctor, your family, or your friends. You are in control of your data, and how you use it is entirely up to you. As a first customer, you will be invited to take part in a usability study and provide feedback and anonymized data to our company as an important part of Cue’s path to FDA approval. You may opt out of this at any time. And, with respect to selling: Absolutely not. Your data belongs to you. Data collected using Cue machines are linked to your smart phone solely. Again, you are the only person that has access to your data. Yes, yes, TOS and privacy policies can change at any time, but this is a quite bit more forthright statement about data, than say the Microsoft Band/Strava/Fitbit/etc. My reading of it is that it's never uploaded to any sort of remote cloud storage. EDIT: The more that I think about it, and the more features that I see that the app has, I'd have to guess that there may be some sort of catch down the line in the above statement. Perhaps your blood work data is never transferred to their servers, but analytic gathering is probably going to take place based on your location, meal planning, exercise records, etc., even if only for "recommendations for you".

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