This is not my opinion, it is just sharing an article. The world we knew from five or six decades ago is changing faster than we ever knew.
Actuaries predict your life span. Banks track your spending habits. Now, your employer can tell whether you’ll have diabetes a year from now.
And the federal government is encouraging businesses to use that information to tell you how to eat and exercise, to “data mine” for your own good and the employer’s bottom line.
Medical records, social media, credit card records and new activity tracking gadgets like Fitbits are being used to assess your riskiness to yourself and to the cost-conscious health care system.
Aetna is among the companies paving the way. It’s using data analytics and interventions on its own 50,000 employees — and about 40 of the companies it insures are using them, too.
The data explosion — some would say intrusion — is being fueled by trends in the private sector and by federal policies, including elements of Obamacare.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...#ixzz387hMdj37