Apple is building an operating system for health
Maybe it&#x27;s the french in my talking, but I really have a hard time trusting anything else than the state to handle health data.<p>Anytime you associate health with financial motivation, you end up with something twisted on the long run.<p>Sure, you can say that Apple, right now, is in the proper state to do that (although given they were part of PRISM, it&#x27;s debatable).<p>But what about in 10 years? What if their executives decide that Apple Pay should lead to the creation of a bank?  Then from a bank to an insurance company? Then they have a conflict of interest.<p>Simpler than that, what if they change their stance on user data, and decide to exploit it to understand their customers better? Or sell it? Or just partner it to labs, insurance companies, hospitals?<p>Like with facebook, it will of course all be &quot;made anonymous&quot;, until it&#x27;s not anymore.<p>Money and health data are not meant to be mixed IMO.<p>But even without all that, we are adding yet another tracking system on top of what is already a sensor packed pocket self-spying device.<p>It&#x27;s hard to not worry that such concentration of power has a high potential for suffering.