“How Your ‘Free’ Fitness App Is Selling Your Health Data”

Описание: You log a run, track your sleep, or note your period in a “free” fitness app—and assume it’s just for you.
But that data is quietly feeding a $20 billion health surveillance market where your most intimate metrics are sold to insurers, employers, pharma companies, and data brokers—often without meaningful consent.

In this animated documentary, we reveal:

How “anonymous” health data is re-identifiable with 95% accuracy
Why menstrual, sleep, and heart rate data are being sold to anti-abortion groups and insurers
How “Sign in with Google” grants full sensor access to your body’s data
The myth of “aggregated data” — and why it’s still your profile
3 practical ways to protect your health privacy (without ditching tech)
This isn’t paranoia. It’s the business model of “free” health apps.

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Sources:

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): “Re-identification of Health Data”
FTC Report on Menstrual App Data Sharing (2024)
Wall Street Journal: “The Secret Life of Your Fitness Data”
Mozilla Foundation: “Privacy Not Included – Fitness Apps”
🔑 KEYWORDS
fitness app privacy, health data sold, menstrual tracker data, free app tracking, health surveillance, Casual Economics style, how Strava shares data, re-identify health data

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