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I personally think it is more important to remember that this info is not necessarily limited to "only courts". Typically, this info is available to anyone with the right amount of cash. Not that I think my sleep data is interesting or valuable...someone seems to think it is...and that should be concerning.

I think the danger in both scenarios is the fact that this data is available for abuse in the first place. It doesn't have to be. You're opening yourself up to the potential that unrelated bad things might happen in return for personalized ads.

Note, this isn't illegal or (in my opinion) even unethical, it just makes me and many others uncomfortable. If that's a tradeoff happy with, then more power to ya!

There is a lot of literature in this area of philosophy. This is the famous "You have nothing to hide if you do nothing wrong" which has been proven 1000 times to be a fallacy.

Yes, which is why I also don't want my phone data to be hoovered up by data brokers and appearing in evidence exhibits.