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The article directly addresses this concern: "If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s
by limagnolia 2mo ago
The article directly addresses this concern:
"If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s call center, you’re being told not to worry. The court filing says the data was deidentified before being put on sale and Google has promised to scrub any PII it finds in the trove."
- dooglius 2mo agoSee the last 3 sentences of GP's post
- hk__2 2mo ago> Google has promised to This part is worrying.
- limagnolia 2mo agoWell, it also says that the data was already scrubbed. Arguments have been made that this is insufficient.
- post-it 2mo agoI have a bridge to sell you.
- john_strinlai 2mo agounfortunately "de-identified" data is typically re-identified quite trivially. so i guess we just hope google keeps its promise, and is competent in its scrubbing.
- Scene_Cast2 2mo agoExplicitly trying to re-identify data that has been de-identified is typically a fireable offence at FAANG. Accidentally making a machine learning system that happens to (potentially) do it is a different matter.
- wat10000 2mo agoModern corporations have learned that the best way to do shady things is to make it very clear that such things are against policy and absolutely forbidden, and then to also make it very clear that breaking policy is the only way to actually get your job done. That way they still get all the benefits of doing shady stuff, and if it ever comes to light then they can fire some scapegoats and explain that this was against policy and they'd never ever condone it.
- john_strinlai 2mo agothis isn't even a "modern corporations" thing, at least in my experience. i remember ~25 years ago being on-call with a work truck. we were absolutely not allowed to speed, at all, ever. we also absolutely had to be at the customer's site within 45 minutes of being called. guess how many of my sites were >45 minutes away when traveling the legal speed limit.
- wat10000 2mo agoI was thinking longer term. It feels like something from recent decades, whereas a century ago the boss would just outright tell you to do the bad thing. That's just my vague impression of the matter. Maybe this sort of thing goes back forever. In any case, excellent example, exactly the sort of thing I mean.