In a recent Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) budget hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wanted every American to be wearing a device equipped with health sensors within the next four years.
We can expect HHS to launch the biggest advertising campaign in their history encouraging Americans to put on the smartwatch.
Kennedy says that, with real-time accurate health data like glucose-monitoring, Americans will make better dietary choices.
One such example of these wearables is the continuous glucose monitor. Casey Means, the current U.S. Surgeon General nominee who was also the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Levels, a continuous glucose monitor company, also promotes the devices.
If these health wearables were promoted and subsidized by insurance, health-monitoring companies would profit handsomely.
Continuous glucose monitors are small plastic disks that attach to your skin. A filament pokes through the first layer of skin and measures the glucose of interstitial fluid, which is then transmitted to a smartphone app.
More common are devices like the Apple Watch, which measure your heart rate. Apple has been developing health studies based on its wearable products like the Apple Watch, Airpods, and the iPhone—which can send regular health surveys.
There’s one major catch here, which I covered in my article “Big Tech Wants To Read Your Mind.” If you enroll in Apple’s optional Health Studies, that information is shared with the HHS and other federal and state organizations.
Check out Apple’s privacy policy.
If we have learned anything over the last four years, it’s that the government can’t be trusted with anyone’s health data. And now RFK Jr. may be laying the foundations for a real-time feed of everyone’s health data.
And it doesn’t stop at heart monitoring. If you look at Google and Apple’s patents, more smart tech is emerging equipped with EEGs (electro-encephalography) that can read the magnetic waves produced by your brain. Other big tech companies like Meta are already using EEGs to attempt to decode sentences as a person types them.
Are we speeding towards the surveillance of our minds? Read more in “How Big Tech Plans To Read Your Mind.”
Given Trump’s 2025 executive order to break down data silos and make things easy for AI across government agencies, in the long run, this could mean your health information is saved along with your official records.
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