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There doing that now ... how has it affected your daily life? Further, If you want to opt out of technology that will extend and save your life that is your ch

There doing that now ... how has it affected your daily life? Further, If you want to opt out of technology that will extend and save your life that is your choice. For me my health/extending my life span is more important then privacy. Others may or may not feel the same.

geon 12y ago
Why not just encrypt it?
- paul9290 12y ago
  Exactly just encrypt your SH&T ... Sorry couldn't resist!
marssaxman 12y ago
The NSA is not currently logging all my health data because there is no digital stream of health data on the internet which they could intercept. Perhaps they could break into my doctor's files if they cared, but all they'd be able to find would be an occasional snapshot from the occasional checkup. Most of the information present would have to be read and analyzed by a human. This is very, very different from the situation which would exist in an "internet of things" world in which my toilet, coffeepot, toothbrush, and the like were all snooping on me and streaming their results. By intercepting all this data, which we already know the NSA is constantly doing, it would be possible to automatically construct a statistics-based picture of my health, and that of everyone else around me. This is incredibly creepy, fucked up, wrong, and not even a little bit OK.
- xorcist 12y ago
  I would like to add that this does not stop with the NSA. I would not be even the slightest bit more comfortable with Apple or Facebook doing it.
angersock 12y ago
A smart toilet is not going to save you from cancer--don't bandy about this idea that things like that clearly are a good idea.
- woofyman 12y ago
  Blood in your stool in tiny amounts is a indicator of colon cancer.
  - jkestner 12y ago
    And of other things, like hemorrhoids, diverticulitis or an abscess. Colon cancer is typically so slow-growing that this is unlikely to save more lives than currently prescribed check-ups and self-observation. The increasing flood of data remains constant as it has since language was developed; it'll be interesting to see how we (or our software agents) adjust sensitivity this time to avoid mass panic, or more pseudo-science trends. See: increased frequency of mammograms leading to more false positives, more stress, more unnecessary invasive procedures.
    - paul9290 12y ago
      Yeah when I say above checks against millions of records ... Those records would be over many years and possibly many many years of data that can point to data points showing this X group of people died of this disease and their specimen(urine too) all had this same trait.

geon 12y ago

Why not just encrypt it?

paul9290 12y ago
Exactly just encrypt your SH&T ... Sorry couldn't resist!

marssaxman 12y ago

The NSA is not currently logging all my health data because there is no digital stream of health data on the internet which they could intercept. Perhaps they could break into my doctor's files if they cared, but all they'd be able to find would be an occasional snapshot from the occasional checkup. Most of the information present would have to be read and analyzed by a human. This is very, very different from the situation which would exist in an "internet of things" world in which my toilet, coffeepot, toothbrush, and the like were all snooping on me and streaming their results. By intercepting all this data, which we already know the NSA is constantly doing, it would be possible to automatically construct a statistics-based picture of my health, and that of everyone else around me. This is incredibly creepy, fucked up, wrong, and not even a little bit OK.

xorcist 12y ago
I would like to add that this does not stop with the NSA. I would not be even the slightest bit more comfortable with Apple or Facebook doing it.

angersock 12y ago

A smart toilet is not going to save you from cancer--don't bandy about this idea that things like that clearly are a good idea.

woofyman 12y ago
Blood in your stool in tiny amounts is a indicator of colon cancer.
- jkestner 12y ago
  And of other things, like hemorrhoids, diverticulitis or an abscess. Colon cancer is typically so slow-growing that this is unlikely to save more lives than currently prescribed check-ups and self-observation. The increasing flood of data remains constant as it has since language was developed; it'll be interesting to see how we (or our software agents) adjust sensitivity this time to avoid mass panic, or more pseudo-science trends. See: increased frequency of mammograms leading to more false positives, more stress, more unnecessary invasive procedures.
  - paul9290 12y ago
    Yeah when I say above checks against millions of records ... Those records would be over many years and possibly many many years of data that can point to data points showing this X group of people died of this disease and their specimen(urine too) all had this same trait.