PrivacyAugust 22, 2026 6 min read
Health-Data Privacy Privacy and Data Considerations
How health-data privacy data should be handled: local-first processing, encryption and real user control.
Health data is deeply personal, so privacy is the precondition for trusting any monitoring device.
Sensitive by nature
Data about health-data privacy is deeply personal, so it deserves the strongest protections by default.
Local
first processing
Encrypted
end to end
Consent
controlled
Deletable
any time
How it should work
The most sensitive signals from on-device processing of sensitive signals should be processed on-device, minimised, encrypted and deletable on demand.
- On-device processing of sensitive signals
- Encrypted storage and transfer
- User-controlled consent and deletion
“The test you take every day beats the perfect test you take once a year.”
Trust is the product
A monitor you don't trust won't be used — so privacy isn't a constraint on tracking health-data privacy, it's the point.
