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Evil does as it will. If Google has it, the ccp does too.
by voz_ 4y ago
Evil does as it will. If Google has it, the ccp does too.
- makeitdouble 4y agoIt took me this comment to realize that for some people we’re really in a kind of cold war state, where everything happening in the US comes back to China.
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- voz_ 4y agoExcept the USSR was not nearly as evil as the CCP.
- kodyo 4y agoThey held first place for a good while, though.
- makeitdouble 4y agoThe “evil” part is really the core of it to me. You didn’t go for “menacing” or “powerful” or “aggressive”, the primary angle is not what they could do, it’s their morality.
- emmelaich 4y agoWhat's evil about improving health?
- voz_ 4y agoThis question is not being asked in good faith. Google's intent is not to improve health - it's to get their hands on as much data as possible to then turn around and sell ads.
- spankalee 4y agoYou think their health group is trying to examine skin and biopsy samples to sell ads?
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- ocdtrekkie 4y agoSkin care isn't a huge market? Health products aren't a huge market? Google would love to be able to personally target you with ads for your exact skin condition, and be the only company with the data to do so.
- dontreact 4y agoPlease explain how you could use pathology slides for ads? Does not seem possible.
- dekhn 4y agoAs a first thought, if you had a large enough labelled dataset, you could build predictive models that would identify skin conditions from path slides. Then, if a user accessed the site and you had their path data, you could show them an ad for melanoma removal, or whatever. Not that google is or will do that.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoThey already have a huge settlement in my state for illegally using biometric identification on Google Photos data. Hundreds of millions of users are already uploading pictures that contain a significant amount of their skin! I read your (excellent) longer comment in here, but I think that we should recognize by now that the idea that Google is not doing it now will never equate to that they will not do it when they can. There's a great statement out there about how DoubleClick data wouldn't be connected with Google's existing targeting data... until, of course, it was. And since Google doesn't have the mindset to succeed in businesses other than ads, we should assume they will eventually pivot all data to selling ads eventually. If you can imagine a scenario where Google could use data for ad money, the only correct take is to act on the assumption they eventually will. And the fact that supposedly reputable organizations like hospitals and the military keep bending over backwards to hand them people's private medical data should be crisis-level alarming.
- pranau 4y agoGoogle does not operate in mainland China.
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