The problem is not governments accessing this data. Its advertisers and marketers.
I notice that the Wallgreens app wants your 'step data' so it an offer your discounts for being healthy.
How much is this a jump to Cancer/HIV status for 'discounts'.
I notice that the Wallgreens app wants your 'step data' so it an offer your discounts for being healthy.
How much is this a jump to Cancer/HIV status for 'discounts'.
Some people have a big problem with governments accessing this data. For example, the US government has used brute-force to access data and bully both citizens and non-citizens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/technology/aclu-border-pa...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-deta...
I can find more individualized cases if you'd like.
I, for one, do not trust the organization known to send people to offshore prisons to be tortured with no judicial overview to "do the right thing" regarding my data, especially when that organization gets penetrated by data breaches so often.