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I hate this statement " I don't want Google to sell my data so that they can blow the money on half-baked Google X projects" Someone please tell me how can I b

I hate this statement " I don't want Google to sell my data so that they can blow the money on half-baked Google X projects" Someone please tell me how can I buy your data and who exactly is google selling my personal data to ? Also google x projects have moved the needle in VR / AR, self driving cars, and in some cities fiber has made a difference. Really I don't get why we'd want to not fund this stuff.

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dwaltrip 10y ago
It's my hunch that having immense data on all humans in one place, along with the potential to take programmatic action based on that data, may significantly increase the risk of massive, harmful affects on society on the decade to century scale. This may involve governments or other powerful entities co-opting the data, which there are increasing hints of. It doesn't even have to be some kind of catastrophy. One scenario I imagine would be something mundane like preventing an alternate future where the majority of people are twice as happy and have twice as much autonomy. Obviously, this can't be proven. But this hunch gives me great pause.
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- angryasian 10y ago
  >It's my hunch that having immense data on all humans in one place, along with the potential to take programmatic action based on that data If you understand the Prism program the govt doesn't even need to go to individual companies. They hook directly into the ISP.
parenthephobia 10y ago
> Someone please tell me how can I buy your data and who exactly is google selling my personal data to ? You can't. Google aren't selling your personal data to anyone. That's antithetical to their business model, which involves them having all the data. They are selling your eyeballs to advertisers, and using your personal data to enable advertisers to very precisely target the demographics they think want to see their adverts. Not that this works.

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dwaltrip 10y ago

It's my hunch that having immense data on all humans in one place, along with the potential to take programmatic action based on that data, may significantly increase the risk of massive, harmful affects on society on the decade to century scale. This may involve governments or other powerful entities co-opting the data, which there are increasing hints of. It doesn't even have to be some kind of catastrophy. One scenario I imagine would be something mundane like preventing an alternate future where the majority of people are twice as happy and have twice as much autonomy. Obviously, this can't be proven. But this hunch gives me great pause.

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angryasian 10y ago
>It's my hunch that having immense data on all humans in one place, along with the potential to take programmatic action based on that data If you understand the Prism program the govt doesn't even need to go to individual companies. They hook directly into the ISP.

parenthephobia 10y ago

> Someone please tell me how can I buy your data and who exactly is google selling my personal data to ? You can't. Google aren't selling your personal data to anyone. That's antithetical to their business model, which involves them having all the data. They are selling your eyeballs to advertisers, and using your personal data to enable advertisers to very precisely target the demographics they think want to see their adverts. Not that this works.