I find the idea of potentially handing Google, a firm whose core model is selling ads and generalized user data, the details of my biochemical makeup quite troubling.
Why should an advertising company get access to this data in the first place? What do they intend on doing with it?
Selling us adverts based on a combination of our biochemical data, or the state of our health, coupled with our search terms that might indicate we have concern over one area or another?
Being able to help the medical sales industry target us more efficiently? As in "X user has Y indicators in their health data, therefore they would be a prudent market to advertise Z to"?
Nobody is saying they should. The data is yours, and if you don't get any value from giving access to it, then don't.
My question was: Assuming you get something in return (better health, or longer life, for example), what are the factors you are weighing against it?
Note in particular that I'm not saying there aren't any. I'm just challenging the knee-jerk statement of "my body's bio-chemical data is super private and sensitive so nothing in the world can be worth giving access to it", without any actual argument for it.
