This strikes me as a whistleblower fail. The story isn't, "I know that something bad happened", as whistleblowing is supposed to mean. Instead they complain th

This strikes me as a whistleblower fail. The story isn't, "I know that something bad happened", as whistleblowing is supposed to mean. Instead they complain that essentially, "I am not personally privy to the consent requirements and privacy protections required, nor do I know what has been implemented." Which... congratulations on not being important, I guess? But in particular, this person gives an emotional plea that people must be given the explicit opportunity to "opt-out", not from the medical research in general, but from any subset of research conducted in collaboration with Google, specifically because it's Google, rather than another research contractor. I donno. Should Internet users be given the opportunity to opt-out from having their IP packets transit fiber owned by AT&T? I mean, sure I agreed to a bunch of stuff when I signed up with my ISP, but my provider is Comcast. They never mentioned AT&T. And some of those packets might not me encrypted....