Biometric data and food shopping habits. Share this to health insurance companies and they will come up with reasons why not to pay for certain health conditions. That's my guess. Dangerous territory.
Why can’t they already do this using your credit card to link your identity? I don’t see how this really changes anything
I don't believe that credit card companies can see individual itemized groceries. Please correct me if I am wrong. I was thinking that Amazon having information as a direct connection to your food purchases (and general nutritional value thereof) would give more details into nutritional habits that could be linked to medical issues. Ex: products with a lot of sugar for diabetics, products high in sodium for persons with high blood pressure or heart failure, etc. With the more detailed information to be potentially shared with third parties, if it was a health insurance company, I am sure they would gladly use that information not to pay for certain medical treatments that they would usually cover using non-compliance to diet as an excuse.
No but nothing is stopping these stores from aggregating your purchase history and linking it to your identify via credit card accounts.
My point is the information is already there. They can already do this now if they wanted. The biometric piece isn’t even necessary.
Ah. I understand. I think I got more caught up in the Amazon part than the biometrics. They seem to be increasingly intrusive.
Biometric data and food shopping habits. Share this to health insurance companies and they will come up with reasons why not to pay for certain health conditions. That's my guess. Dangerous territory.
Why can’t they already do this using your credit card to link your identity? I don’t see how this really changes anything
I don't believe that credit card companies can see individual itemized groceries. Please correct me if I am wrong. I was thinking that Amazon having information as a direct connection to your food purchases (and general nutritional value thereof) would give more details into nutritional habits that could be linked to medical issues. Ex: products with a lot of sugar for diabetics, products high in sodium for persons with high blood pressure or heart failure, etc. With the more detailed information to be potentially shared with third parties, if it was a health insurance company, I am sure they would gladly use that information not to pay for certain medical treatments that they would usually cover using non-compliance to diet as an excuse.
No but nothing is stopping these stores from aggregating your purchase history and linking it to your identify via credit card accounts.
My point is the information is already there. They can already do this now if they wanted. The biometric piece isn’t even necessary.
Ah. I understand. I think I got more caught up in the Amazon part than the biometrics. They seem to be increasingly intrusive.