I wouldn't have took Vitality up on this offer for anything but an Apple Watch, but I trust Apple not to give them access to anything behind my back. They also use the workouts feature as input to their point rewards stuff, so it's a pretty good deal.

Yeah... Apple won't, but the health tracking apps that you'll be asked to install certainly will - many already share with Facebook, without your consent[1].

You won't be getting that Apple Watch for free.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236398/facebook-mobile-...

> I don't think it's actually that terrible as long as privacy is respected.

Surely we're well past the point of pretending that will happen?

This same thing exists in the US, too. Except even more nefarious, because it can affect your health insurance premiums.

The company where I work recently changed health insurance providers. Reps from the new company pushed this stuff HARD, along with their program for using an app to get basic health care from some random remote doctor.

To the best of my knowledge, exactly nobody was interested in these programs.