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Was it really profit motive that had them giving data to the DOD? Seems like it was more likely to do with legal pressures. I certainly don't know for sure but
by wuliwong 12y ago
Was it really profit motive that had them giving data to the DOD? Seems like it was more likely to do with legal pressures. I certainly don't know for sure but that would be my guess as evidenced by all that has come out over the last year with U.S. Govt. trying to force companies to give over their data.
- zaroth 12y agoThere was no legal pressure or profit motive. My understanding is they were helping research on suicide rates by tracking some aggregate count of mentions of certain keywords in public feeds based on opt-in geolocation. I think anyone could have publicly scraped even more disaggregated data than the aggregate numbers that Whisper was providing to the suicide researchers.