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Just because its fun to play "worst case scenario"... An actuary finds a link between late night cell phone usage and mental illness X. They determine that giv

Just because its fun to play "worst case scenario"... An actuary finds a link between late night cell phone usage and mental illness X. They determine that given your cell phone usage pattern, you have an 50% chance of illness X. Such information is sold to insurance companies, employment background check companies, yada yada

true_religion 13y ago
Aren't there laws in place about selling/sharing individualized personal information? If not, then I think there should be so apps that simply want to use aggregated data will be allowed and will be guaranteed to be safe.
k-mcgrady 13y ago
>> "An actuary finds a link between late night cell phone usage and mental illness X. They determine that given your cell phone usage pattern, you have an 50% chance of illness X. Such information is sold to insurance companies, employment background check companies, yada yada" What scares me about this is that there is a place in the world having an illness affects your employment prospects and costs you money (insurance).