Re:I Would Rather Die Than Let Facebook Monitor My Heart Rate
by danparsonson on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:00AM
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Perhaps medical records are more 'viscerally' private to people than conversations with friends? It's easier to forget that big brother is recording everything you say when most of it is amiable chatter, but when it comes to having, say, incurable butt-warts, people become a lot more reticent, if only out of a fear of embarrassment.
Personally, short of deleting my account, I stay as far away from Facebook as I can, and try to minimise the amount of data I share with other services, although some compromises are still necessary or at least sufficiently convenient.
> Maybe for yourself, you don't care about that, but I think most people consider this sort of thing deeply personal and private.
Part of the reason I asked. Why are your conversations less private and personal to you/others/this journalist than what is probably a mundane medical history or in this case, just a pulse?
The discrimination angle certainly makes sense though as a plausible fear.