> Google had to be forced to allow this?

When were they forced? Takeout came out in 2011, I don’t remember them being forced to do it

If you mean "health insurance providers", then we already have that in Switzerland.

My anecdata is when an obese acquaintance walked in to the (for profit) insurance company and asked for "extra" service; the insurer is not obliged to offer that to everyone (whereas there is also a compulsory insurance), simply based on the looks, I guess.

I kinda loathe these insurance providers, however, I can't disagree with some of their policies (lack of exercise induced obesity and smoking is a big no in my book). So indeed, using the "walk enough" information is probably the future, OTOH countries without similar systems (UK, and Eastern Europe comes to my mind) have collapsing public healthcare where they can't filter out self destructing lifestyle, everyone bears the responsibility.

Google had a Data Liberation Front before it was forced by regulation to enable bulk, machine-readable data downloading. Takeout is their product.

Not being a native speaker I thought the "Kindly enough" conveyed the sarcasm (since I think most people don't associate Google with being kind). I'll try to find a better wording (or maybe make the "Kindly enough" a link pointing the GDPR?)

> One day, your insurance company may inquire if you have walked enough to be covered. [I think we're past that point.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv...)