Apple takes the logical next step: Health data are private!

Health data privacy advocates like Dr. Deborah C. Peel have been writing and discussing this problem for a long time. And people on Capitol Hill are becoming increasingly interested.

“If Apple is really doing this, if they’re really saying to developers that you can only use the data for the specific purpose that app provides the user, and that they can not share the data with anyone else without informed consent, that is the victory of victories,” Peel told VentureBeat.

“That’s what we’re seeking from all of the 100,000 of the companies that are now selling health data,” Peel says.