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> Thats nothing compared to the work in China right now. In ten or 20 years, the west could be permanently behind. That's a completely acceptable trade off to
by SkyPuncher 8y ago
> Thats nothing compared to the work in China right now. In ten or 20 years, the west could be permanently behind.
That's a completely acceptable trade off to me. China and the west have different perspectives on how users privacy should be handled.
- paulsutter 8y agoIn the west we have total surveillance of personal communications, but we can't datamine anonymized health information. Under what ideology does that make sense?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThere's a difference between having total surveillance and that surveillance being legal and generally approved of by the masses.
- gautamdivgi 8y agoUnder the ideology that medical data in any form is the property of the patient and not an institution or government. I get it it’s a catch-22 situation. Without data there are no meaningful statistics. But are those who data is used to arrive at diagnostics and cures provided any benefit? I don’t think so - change that and you may see an uptick in data sharing.
- umeshunni 8y agoSo the west would rather than millions die from cancer than make health information more accessible to researchers.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoYes, because throwing away patient privacy in the name of hopefully maybe someday being able to get better treatment is not a trade-off that we are willing to make.