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Apple Watch data and Health Insurance.

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What if the only way to lower your health premium to an affordable rate was to allow your health insurer access to your Apple Watch data?

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I don't think this would provide any benefit to me. I have Type 1 diabetes. It's a chronic progressive illness. Food and insulin are one of the over two-dozen variables that affect blood glucose control. The majority of these variables not under my control. Insulin dosing is an art. Even if I eat the same thing for every meal, I will get a different blood glucose reading throughout the day, and it would also be different each day.

Given that the Apple Watch is not a medical device capable of accurately measuring blood glucose and operating an insulin pump, wearing.

Google, Facebook oppose "do not track"

Ars is reporting that a group of companies including Google, Facebook and members of the Computer and Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) wrote a letter to  the California legislature.

To borrow a line from Hamlets mother, theres a distinct the-lady-doth-protest-too-much quality to this letter—a summoning of everything in the rhetorical kitchen sink that might scare California politicians away from the bill.

I think that fear, uncertainty and doubt is precisely the aim of that letter.  These companies are afraid of losing their ability to collect and harvest our personal data — our online lives — for profit.

via The Brooks Review