The problem is that this information is not yours. There is an intermediary. There are the companies involved and the governance structure.
So, if the governance structure creates a rule that all watches should report to the government when there is a potential medical emergency, and even that you should be isolated and kept locked in - what can you do about it?
So, this is good information, but information in a different set of hands can be used against your interests.
Then you get into the idea that the government is here to help. I disagree. I think the government is here to govern, and that it acts against me in many ways even though I am doing nothing wrong.
Is it ok for me to have a different perspective? Must I accept the government constraints and the (self-serving) laws it writes? To statist (those who believe in the political paradigm on both the blue and red teams) I should apparently accept government dictats.
People seem to forget that everything the Nazis (National Socialists) did was legal too. A government (which is made up of people like you and I, only the seek power over others) can write appalling laws into the statute.
Anyway, it is naive to think that this is about information. This is another incremental step towards tyranny.
I just think the future probably looks more like HIPAA laws than what we have had with a big tech data free for all.
On the other hand, I am not even sure a wearable that takes a blood sample is commercially realistic with medical laws. Sweat sample might be as far as you can realistically go.
Of course, 50 years out who knows.
The feedback loops for the other things are pretty bad, fitness isn't so bad imo.
Apple must do marketing research, and decided most people want to know their vitals on a daily basis?
Or alternatively, we'll enter a new era of medical surveillance where healthy people are turned neurotic by being subjected to unnecessary medical interventions because their watch tells them their stress levels deviate from the 'norm'.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” "