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TL;DR Some Samsung Health users are reportedly seeing a controversial new toggle in the app.
The toggle allows Samsung to use your health data for AI training and modeling.
Disabling this toggle means you can’t sync health data to your Samsung account and that this data will be deleted.
The Samsung Health app has received some major additions so far this year. Unfortunately, it looks like the company is holding your health data hostage if you don’t agree to a controversial move.
Some Samsung Health users (h/t: How-To Geek) are now seeing a notice and toggle titled “Consent to the Use of Health Data for AI Training and Modelling.” Yes, Samsung is using your health data to train AI. But that’s not the worst part. Disabling this toggle results in a message warning users that they won’t be able to sync health data to their Samsung account and that this data will be deleted unless required by law. Check out the outlet’s screenshots below.
A Samsung Health page also outlines exactly what health data is captured for AI training and modeling: Health and wellness data: data related to body measurements, nutrition, step count and activity, and sleep
Medication data: data related to medications, including prescriptions and dosages
Health records: medical and clinical data, such as diagnoses, prognoses, test results, past records and treatments
Cycle tracking data: data related to menstrual cycles, including physical conditions and physiological indicators (e.g. heart rate) “The health data you have allowed us to collect and process will be used for AI training and modeling, including human review, to improve Samsung Health, including algorithms to analyze health conditions and our AI features,” reads another excerpt of the page.
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