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‘Explosive’ conservative non-doctor turbocharging RFK Jr’s healthcare coup 05:52 July 31, 2025, 4:18 PM CDT By Brandy Zadrozny, Senior Reporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants Americans to turn over their health data to tech companies and the government. It’s the very thing — prior to his takeover of the nation’s public health — that he’d been warning his followers to fear. “It’s connecting all the things in your life, anything that you call smart, that could be your Apple Watch, it could be your telephone, your GPS on your telephone, the GPS on your car, your garage door opener,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on his podcast in 2020, produced by his then-employer, the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense. “They have so much data now that they have access to … They’re going to take billions of terabytes of data and then they’re gonna do analytics on them and monetize them and sell them back to companies that want to turn you into a permanent consumer.” Kennedy spent years warning his followers that wearable devices enabled tyranny. Kennedy spent years warning his followers that wearable devices and the tech that they rely on were part of a sinister plan to surveil and control Americans — that they enabled tyranny, caused cancer and turned users into “permanent consumers” in a 5G-powered system of behavioral control orchestrated by Big Tech. Citing companies Apple, Google and Facebook, Kennedy cautioned on a 2023 podcast, “Those are the companies that are going to be the mechanisms for controlling our conduct, our behavior and exploiting our marketing behavior.” He was talking not just about wearables, but also all smart devices, generally known as “the Internet of Things.” “What are you actually going to get out of it?” Kennedy asked, referencing 5G broadband technology that would connect the devices. “How is that actually going to benefit human beings? As it turns out, it has nothing to do with making our lives better. It has everything to do with creating an infrastructure for artificial intelligence, which is going to rob us of our jobs, and for surveillance and for data harvesting by big companies.” But as health secretary, Kennedy is now trumpeting the kind of data gathering and sharing program that he and his followers would have likely opposed and spun into conspiracy catnip: a new government partnership with tech companies that will collect and track the health data and medical records of Americans