The iPhone Health app performs mental health assessments that are designed to probe the inner workings of users' brains. Under the guise of providing "support" for people's "mental wellbeing," Apple instructs users to "log an emotion or mood," as well as "choose how you're feeling right now" with the simple click of a slider button.
Whatever you choose to input into the Health app is then sent off to Apple, which uses it for who knows what as it joins the rest of Big Tech in unleashing an Orwellian surveillance nightmare worldwide.
"iPhone mental health assessments not only ask questions about your mental health but can also infer the mental health status of family members, as demonstrated by the image publicly shared by phone on the benefits of a phone mental health assessment," explains Dr. Robert Malone from the Brownstone Institute.
"What could possibly go wrong?"
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Despite all its claims about protecting user privacy, Apple sure does collect a lot of sensitive information that, should it end up being hacked, would reveal a lot of personal and very private things that Apple users likely do not want going public.
Consider what recently happened with CrowdStrike. A simple coding "error" resulted in a worldwide tech outage that grounded flights and unleashed massive chaos. Should the same thing happen to Apple at some point in the future, expect a similar or worse fallout.
Dr. Malone says the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gained access to "all" of the "confidential data" he submitted to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) back in 2015 in order to obtain a security clearance.
The Chinese government, he says, hacked into the U.S. government's "super-secret" and "super-secure" data storage site and simply took it all with ease. The U.S. government then offered Dr. Malone a credit report and free monitoring of his credit report for an entire year.
Keep in mind that Apple is partnered with all sorts of health organizations and academic institutions linked to health-related research, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the University of Michigan.
Apple also collaborates with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on its Digital Mental Health Study, which more than likely utilizes the data collected through Apple devices like the iPhone to investigate mental health patterns and outcomes.
"Trusting that the user identifiers have been completely stripped before that data is passed on is a risk that one takes when entering such information into an iPhone," Dr. Malone warns.
The reason why Apple does all this, of course, is because it is a highly profitable endeavor. Violating people's private lives is lucrative in that it allows unscrupulous corporations like Apple to sell more advertising about mental health services by "connecting" said services directly to people via their iPhones.
One example of this might be that an iPhone user who is depressed receives ads from Apple for antidepressant pharmaceuticals and / or links and phone numbers to physicians who are desperate to prescribe them.
"The bottom line – no data is 100% secure, and this is mental health data. Data that might be extremely embarrassing, career-damaging, or has the potential to disrupt family relationships. Remember, no one knows what new laws, regulations, or more might come to pass years from now. This type of information should not be harvested and stored."
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