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When you use your car, you trust 100 different manufacturers from all corners of the earth. When you go to the hospital, you trust 100 different machines, chemi
by buboard 7y ago
When you use your car, you trust 100 different manufacturers from all corners of the earth. When you go to the hospital, you trust 100 different machines, chemicals, gloves, needles etc. It's no different.
- rpastuszak 7y agoI'd argue that there's an obvious difference between buying a car or receiving medical care versus being targeted for advertising purposes.
- gpm 7y agoWhen I go to the hospital I trust the local doctors to make good decisions on products to buy, I don't trust the products themselves let alone the products manufacturers. Moreover it's not so much trust as resignation to the fact that I have no better option but to hope they don't do something stupid. When I use a car I trust the combination of the manufacturer and the regulator to have used parts in a fashion such that they won't kill me. I don't know or trust the individual part manufacturers, that's the automakers job. There is no equivalent to the doctor, or the automaker, or the regulator here. It is not at all similar.
- rswail 7y agoI trust that the hospital complies with medical regulations and standards and that the manufacturers do as well, with the appropriate inspections by a relatively disinterested regulator. Similar for the car manufacture, plus there are negligence laws in place if either the hospital suppliers or car manufacturers fail.
- briffle 7y agoWhen I can file malpractice lawsuits against ad-tech companies for leaking my personal data, maybe then, after a few years of lawsuits causing their insurance rates to skyrocket, can we maybe talk about trusting them.
- madenine 7y agoWhen you go to the hospital, every machine, chemical, glove, needle has gone through an FDA approval process or has been manufactured to pass FDA standards. There is no FDA or NHTSA for web technologies.