Google already knows what diagnoses people have, simply because people have been searching their symptoms. Remember when Google several years ago boasted about predicting epidemics faster than the health care system, based on searches?
UDPATE: Here is the reason: "And then, GFT failed—and failed spectacularly—missing at the peak of the 2013 flu season by 140 percent. When Google quietly euthanized the program, called Google Flu Trends (GFT), it turned the poster child of big data into the poster child of the foibles of big data. " [1]
[0] https://www.google.org/flutrends/about/
[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...
>Google Flu Trends and Google Dengue Trends are no longer publishing current estimates
Can someone decode what this actually means? Was their estimate of flu cases 140 percent higher or lower than the actual amount (or maybe lazily meant "at 140 percent", so, estimate was 40 percent low), was the peak offset by 1.4 months (or 14 months??), something else?
People are really upset because google started acting politically. If they weren't concerned about Google's judgment they wouldn't be worried.
But they're right to worry.
An activity tracking device on your arm can't determine what medication you are taking or what diagnosis you have unless it has a secret microphone that is recording every conversation and uploading it for analysis, which is what the concern the person you replied to quoted.
Acting corporately is totally not ok
If you decent person of course
There's the general and the specific.
Google is on a war path, but many prefer to stick their heads in the sand.