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The Cloud/BigData business, which is the strategic thrust of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure and Google/GCP, is simply 2nd degree surveillance. BigData is code word
by pacala 8y ago
The Cloud/BigData business, which is the strategic thrust of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure and Google/GCP, is simply 2nd degree surveillance. BigData is code word for "ever more detailed logs of every human on the planet".
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoIn many ways it has come to mean surveillance-as-a-service. Big Data usually means, “we want monitoring, logging & tracking at a scale large enough to cope with surveillance data ingestion rates.” There are remarkably few instances of actual “big data” problems, at least in the commercial sector, that aren’t merely surveillance. As a machine learning engineer myself, this is somewhat of an existential crisis. It truly makes quant finance look like one of the most ethically positive career choices left.
- Aco- 8y agoI'm curious.. Can you please provide more information or sources on these concepts? I've always had a hunch this was the case
- oblio 8y agoThose don't necessarily go together. For the cloud, you pay for infrastructure. You are not the product.