Dear Editor,
In July 2025, the Trump Administration unveiled a centralized digital health-tracking system backed by more than 60 private tech & healthcare companies — including Apple, Google, Amazon, Cleveland Clinic, UnitedHealth Group, and more. This initiative, managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), is set to launch in 6 months or less.
On the surface, it promises “streamlined care” by consolidating medical records, wellness data, and AI-driven health advice into connected apps. But what’s being built isn’t just a modern health record-keeping system — it’s the infrastructure of continuous digital surveillance with some of our most sensitive, private, and precious information.
The tech uses cloud-connected data, bio-metric monitoring, and AI-powered tools to monitor individuals in real time. Unlike hospitals or clinics, tech companies aren’t bound by HIPAA laws. That means your most personal health data could be analyzed, sold, or used to target you across platforms — from Google to Meta to OpenAI — with-out your consent.
This is not healthcare. It’s a soft rollout of coercive digital governance.
If opting out becomes impossible: Consent becomes meaningless, violating foundational medical ethics and internation-al human rights principles.
Surveillance becomes normalized, making participation in basic life — work, school, travel, even access to insurance or care — dependent on compliance.
Our bodies become data, and data becomes currency — scored, sold, potentially used against us.
These systems are sold to us as “efficient” and “personalized,” but history tells us that centralized data systems are rarely designed with the public’s best interest in mind. I can assure you that US citizens will not benefit from this; Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag, and our capitalistic overlords will be who benefits.
I urge readers to pay attention and speak out before this becomes our new normal. Once the infrastructure is in place, reclaiming our sovereignty and autonomy will be much harder.
Sincerely,
Lindsey Lockett-Dietz
