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Of course there's a lot of potential for tremendous good to come out of this. Right from the article: "Insel: One of the great challenges in this field is how t
by mfoy_ 11y ago
Of course there's a lot of potential for tremendous good to come out of this. Right from the article: "Insel: One of the great challenges in this field is how to help people who do not want help."
If Google can somehow predict and prevent a mental health issue from getting to the point you describe, that would be wonderful. But we can't ignore the huge privacy issue to deal with there.
If Google was surreptitiously capturing reliable psychological assessments of people on a large scale, especially post-Snowden, I'm sure anyone could imagine more than a couple potential issues.
- DanBC 11y agoI feel like yelling "Google already has this data!" People have been saying for years that it's probably a bad idea to let Google slurp as much data as they do and keep it as long as they do. We passed the point of no return about 7 years ago. Everything is now online; online functionality is baked into the OS; everything calls back to the mothership.