I don’t see how a small sample of a small demographic is possibly useful for advertising, even if they sell pharmaceuticals to every single service member it st

I don’t see how a small sample of a small demographic is possibly useful for advertising, even if they sell pharmaceuticals to every single service member it still won’t be a significant amount of money to Google. This is just some researchers trying to play with a health dataset. I think there’s a lot of real good that could come from such datasets, it’s unfortunate this effort is tied to Google somehow because it triggers the privacy zealotry brain off switch of HN.