Yes, it could be bad. Or it could be medically beneficial to people who are anxious and depressed and simply don’t have anyone to help them recognize it because they’re alone. Particularly during the pandemic, that would have been useful.
As long as no health data leaves my Apple Watch + iPhone, I am OK with local deep learning (or other models) running on my devices.
I do wish there were International standards and local laws supporting: all data staying on users' devices unless explicitly shared with health care providers, and also agreed upon standards for anonymizing explicitly shared data for the public good (research, AI training data, etc.)
I'd be ok with an app by a third party which does not automatically gets network access on my phone explicitly or implicitly, so I know my data doesn't leave my phone.
AFAIK, except when you enrol in a study, none of that depends on network access.
The trust you have in the system is not the trust I have.
Not at all. What you are saying is that you don't want to lock the front-door because nobody has illegally entered your house yet. In contrast, I want to lock my front-door for obvious reasons. No paranoia. It's just a different mentality of dealing with security.
[1] https://habr.com/en/post/579714/
EDIT: Found the link to the previous HN discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28637276
Recall that Google got to claim their street view cars wardriving was unintentional, and just paid $13M to make it go away, after using the data for about a decade [1]
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/tech/google-street-view-priva...
CSAM is coming back in other ways. Apple will try again.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/apple-reportedly...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end...
If they wanted to do it in the first place, why did they go to the effort of trying to make it impossible and had to be stopped by police?
Despite what one may think of the police, they do have a legal basis for attempting to collect possible evidence in the natural course of their duties when equipped with an appropriate warrant. In such cases Apple might have been exposed to any number of different legal problems, including obstruction of justice accusations.
So it was probably just easier for Apple to comply. But who knows what the thinking was.
Why would they do that, if they want the data? Are they just complete morons?
"Apple health data stored on iCloud is encrypted so that Apple can not access it."
Whatever anyone is saying, they CAN access it if they want, and do so for law enforcement as needed.
From what I understand you are the one that seems to believe that Apple has tried to make it hard for themselves. I've been saying all along it's trivial for them to unlock iCloud data. As to why I say that -- the recent CSAM thing made me realize that I don't trust them. It's a personal thing.
Nor do I really care. I don't use Apple anymore, and I sleep better at night.