RFK Jr’s: Health Trackers for All?

  A good idea with terrible potential applications?

  Having worked extensively with connected home appliances in the past, I have grown extremely suspicious of their business model which in a nutshell consists in having you pay twice for the device: Once when you buy it and a second time when they sell absolutely every information they can collect... with your permission of course! (Usually on page 7 of a 10 pages contract that you will never read. - Not that you could use the device if you didn't say yes anyway.)  

  So what exactly could go wrong? Except implementing a police state on account of your good health? Do anything forbidden? Lose your insurance! Anything restricted? Pay more! The opportunities are infinite. Not all will be implemented of course, but you can count on the imagination of marketeers to make your life smoother at a price and governments, to monitor "better", and inefficiently.

  Now, in a completely unconnected but closely related subject: Did you notice how efficiently the Israelis eliminated Iranian scientists? How could they do that without non stop information about these peoples' habits? In that case, the source was of course mobile applications. And frankly, following the pager debacle in Lebanon, maybe Iran should have learned and built a more resistant (to hacking) system?

 So what could go wrong? Well, your mobile is above all a tracking device which also makes phone calls. The only two confidential types of information still difficult to access is your financial information and your health. This would add "health" and CBDC (Central bank Digital Currencies) would add finance. With those two, you are naked. There is literally nothing left to hide!)

 Not that you have anything to hide, right? Well, then remember the words of Cardinal Richelieu:  "Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him."

Daily Mail:

Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to fit all Americans with a tracking device within the next four years.

The Health and Human Services secretary revealed his plans during a House hearing yesterday, saying the devices — like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Whoop and Oura ring — were ‘key to the MAHA agenda’.

He said the technology could help people lose weight and exercise more regularly, as well as ‘take control of their health’ and encourage ‘good judgements about their diets, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.’

In an effort to get a smartwatch, ring or monitor on every American, RFK Jr said he is planning to launch ‘one of the biggest’ advertising campaigns in history to encourage more people to wear the devices — which range from $99 to nearly $800.

The health secretary said officials were ‘exploring’ how the government could pay for the devices for some Americans.

It is the latest proposal in his Make America Healthy Again mission, and comes amid his vow to find the cause of – and solve – the rising rates of cancer, chronic disease and autism in young people.

But some commentators called the move unusual for the health secretary, who has previously railed against a ‘surveillance state’.

RFK Jr revealed his plans to the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday, saying: ‘We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda, Making America Healthy Again.