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What I’d be concerned isn’t improved ads, but lack of such tech in healthcare and civil services. All these cameras should be able to predict heart attack, let

What I’d be concerned isn’t improved ads, but lack of such tech in healthcare and civil services. All these cameras should be able to predict heart attack, let alone calling ambulance and immediately knowing your entire health history and next best action…

GekkePrutser 4y ago
Even if it's used 'for good' I'd have a problem with that. And not just me, in the Netherlands we had a huge public discussion about a central health register, and the end result was an opt-in which many people didn't do. As far as I know it's still opt-in. I never opted in, though I don't live there anymore. And here in Spain I don't have a choice, they're not as privacy-conscious here.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
  Go to a private clinic and you’ll have your privacy If healthcare is socialise IMO it’s worth contributing your data, not only taxes.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Oddlly enough, private clinics mandate signing over data to be shared with "parners" on a regular basis in non-negotiable patient service "agreements".
    - dzhiurgis 4y ago
      But at least you’re not selling out to big brother, only to big corp!
      - dredmorbius 4y ago
        Surveillance capitalism feeds the surveillance state, and vice versa.
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    I personally think privacy is a fundamental human right that trumps this. But it's an opinion of course. And private healthcare is also socialised. Just among a smaller group of contributors (those subscribing to the private health insurance) and someone is grabbing profit from it. It's not all that different.
    - dzhiurgis 4y ago
      Mixing up private health insurance vs going to private clinic and paying out of pocket. I don’t see how digitising and centralising your medical info into a useful form is any different vs keeping everything in paper in terms for privacy. Do you argue we have no medical records in any form?

GekkePrutser 4y ago

Even if it's used 'for good' I'd have a problem with that. And not just me, in the Netherlands we had a huge public discussion about a central health register, and the end result was an opt-in which many people didn't do. As far as I know it's still opt-in. I never opted in, though I don't live there anymore. And here in Spain I don't have a choice, they're not as privacy-conscious here.

dzhiurgis 4y ago
Go to a private clinic and you’ll have your privacy If healthcare is socialise IMO it’s worth contributing your data, not only taxes.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Oddlly enough, private clinics mandate signing over data to be shared with "parners" on a regular basis in non-negotiable patient service "agreements".
  - dzhiurgis 4y ago
    But at least you’re not selling out to big brother, only to big corp!
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      Surveillance capitalism feeds the surveillance state, and vice versa.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  I personally think privacy is a fundamental human right that trumps this. But it's an opinion of course. And private healthcare is also socialised. Just among a smaller group of contributors (those subscribing to the private health insurance) and someone is grabbing profit from it. It's not all that different.
  - dzhiurgis 4y ago
    Mixing up private health insurance vs going to private clinic and paying out of pocket. I don’t see how digitising and centralising your medical info into a useful form is any different vs keeping everything in paper in terms for privacy. Do you argue we have no medical records in any form?