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Nothing really is done with this data, ultimately. It gets fed to 'analysts' who make models, and if those models don't agree with the decisions the executives

Nothing really is done with this data, ultimately. It gets fed to 'analysts' who make models, and if those models don't agree with the decisions the executives are already making, it just gets ignored.

johannes1234321 4y ago
Still the data is collected in data pools, where somebody forgets to delete it a d later somebody does some more worthwhile analysis ...
devindotcom 4y ago
In one sense this is correct and why I personally stopped caring - what are they going to do with 5 years worth of my choice of cream cheese and apple varieties? But for other people it may be more revealing, of medical conditions, life changes, etc, especially when combined with other datasets. You moved from a one bedroom to a studio, started buying half as much milk and twice as many frozen pizzas, and take cars to restaurants less? Sorry about the breakup, here are some dating app ads.
- drdaeman 4y ago
  That's not breakup, that's some new debt or loss of income. Or anything else, really. That's the problem with "big data" - at scale it might work, but at the individual level the only thing you can be sort of sure is that something is going on with this source, but not what it is.
blue039 4y ago
Would be a shame if it leaked though, wouldn't it? I could imagine healthcare companies would be very interested in the metadata surrounding prolific consumers of junk food, smokes, booze, etc. Wouldn't be too hard to use parallel construction to modify rates given the current "market".
JohnFen 4y ago
The data combined with other data in larger databases, though, and provided to all sorts of other businesses. Honestly, if my data stayed with the store, just between them and me, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned. The problem is less the data collection and more the databases.

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Nothing really is done with this data, ultimately. It gets fed to 'analysts' who make models, and if those models don't agree with the decisions the executives

by ok123456 4y ago

johannes1234321 4y ago
Still the data is collected in data pools, where somebody forgets to delete it a d later somebody does some more worthwhile analysis ...
devindotcom 4y ago
In one sense this is correct and why I personally stopped caring - what are they going to do with 5 years worth of my choice of cream cheese and apple varieties? But for other people it may be more revealing, of medical conditions, life changes, etc, especially when combined with other datasets. You moved from a one bedroom to a studio, started buying half as much milk and twice as many frozen pizzas, and take cars to restaurants less? Sorry about the breakup, here are some dating app ads.
- drdaeman 4y ago
  That's not breakup, that's some new debt or loss of income. Or anything else, really. That's the problem with "big data" - at scale it might work, but at the individual level the only thing you can be sort of sure is that something is going on with this source, but not what it is.
blue039 4y ago
Would be a shame if it leaked though, wouldn't it? I could imagine healthcare companies would be very interested in the metadata surrounding prolific consumers of junk food, smokes, booze, etc. Wouldn't be too hard to use parallel construction to modify rates given the current "market".
JohnFen 4y ago
The data combined with other data in larger databases, though, and provided to all sorts of other businesses. Honestly, if my data stayed with the store, just between them and me, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned. The problem is less the data collection and more the databases.