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These are technically medical datasets. Unlike the weather, there are serious privacy laws in play here.
by dangom 7y ago
These are technically medical datasets. Unlike the weather, there are serious privacy laws in play here.
- axegon_ 7y agoThough there is something to your claim, the fact that it's been made "public" suggests that participants have signed a consent form(possibly multiple). This is not an isolated case - large portion of those "open source" data sets are "Please sign up, send us an email and mail a DNA sample". And I'm talking about data sets which hold 0.0 personal or classified information.