Pine, there are actually two separate requests and they shouldn't be mixed.  The performance-related one is research as far as I understand, and the other one we have no details yet.  I welcome a public discussion of either, and of course would respect any opinions held by the analytics community at large.  We have every intention to be good stewards of this data and for what it's worth, I'm very skeptical of allowing access to private data, unless for obviously beneficial purposes like flu forecasting, etc.