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Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App (bbc.com)
A privacy expert is criticizing Google for taking over a controversial health app developed by AI firm DeepMind. The app in question -- Streams -- was first used to send alerts in a London hospital but hit headlines for gathering data on 1.6 million patients without informing them. DeepMind now wants the app to become an AI assistant for nurses and doctors around the world. BBC reports: One expert described the move as "trust demolition." Lawyer and privacy expert Julia Powles, who has closely followed the development of Streams, responded on Twitter: "DeepMind repeatedly, unconditionally promised to 'never connect people's intimate, identifiable health data to Google.' Now it's announced... exactly that. This isn't transparency, it's trust demolition," she added.
In Google We Trust. It is on all new dollars.
Even Microsoft at its Gates/Ballmer worst was only about market domination.
Google has shown they're about ripping your privacy apart and selling it to anyone and everyone, and they sure look like they play political domination too.
All the while Google is openly selling out to totalitarian governments.
Google doesn't merely DO evil, Google IS evil.
So now Google will know the intimate health status of millions for marketing purposes..
As in you should've trusted your instincts
when your gut told you that this could happen,
just like your mind foresaw that it would happen,
and now those feelings have become fact,
when it in fact did happen.
Huray for boobies !
Them having some of your health records or them buying access to your MasterCard transactions? And why are you using Android when they keep having "oopsies" where Google services don't honor the privacy controls and keep sending data? And please tell me you're not pissing and moaning about them datamining your "free" email.
Fact of life, folks: you can't make a deal with the devil and not come out burned and stinking of sulfur.
Just a thought - would you complain if this system found something life threatening with you that nobody else did, and it ended up saving your life or at least giving you a longer/better quality of life?
Kneejerk reactions will cost us all.
Google and trust will never work.
Just like Facebook when it said it wouldn't take any user data from WhatsApp when it bought that company. These companies thrive on user data and aren't going to pass up a chance to get more if they can no matter what they've said before.
There's nothing in the story about sharing data, just the technology. DeepMind said "Patient data remains under our NHS partners' strict control, and all decisions about its use will continue to lie with them. The move to Google does not affect this." The knee-jerk hysteria of privacy nuts is sadly counterproductive, even fewer will listen each time until eventually they are left shouting at each other in an isolated room. Or has that happened already?
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Seriously. This type of comprehensive information needs to be studied by all medical fields. I am not sure Google is the one that should be doing it but they seem to be the only actor with the ability to start the conversation.
Pretty much what more perceptive people have predicted is happening. Also, anybody working at Google should think very hard about what it means to be complicit and whether that is something they want to be.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
They should be accused of making shoddy products. They are supposed to be geniuses, and (e.g.) Android remains an unholy piece of crap, that sort of works, except when it doesn't, at which point nobody seems to know why, and the default remedy seems to be a factory reset. What a bunch of ridiculous clowns. As for the Apple fans, do not rejoice too much, for Apple's offerings in this space are at least as obnoxious and pathetic.
If a company needs access to Google's data, they just market themselves for acquisition.
Post-acquisition, it's all Google!
What if it found out google was endangering my life through shoddy info practices?
Google recently shortened their motto to the one work neologism "Bevil"
The check's in the mail.
No, that dress doesn't make you look fat.
Despite the fact that our entire history screams otherwise, we won't compromise your privacy to monetize your data.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Never trust an application to not behave maliciously. If it has the technical capability to copy your information and phone home then you should assume that's exactly what it will do. We need to develop security hardened OSes to prevent this kind of privacy infringement because it will not stop on it's own but it can be prevented from happening in the first place.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Don't cross the Streams
is actually
The ONLY thing that will stop these large corporations is 2-3 years jail time for senior management. Paying fines does not work, they simply view that as a cost of doing business.
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I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).
Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.
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LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...
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APK
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I am quite sure that google is not the party who should have this data. Why should they? Hey everybody we should encourage medical research and save lives, and we should put our trust in a FUCKING ADVERTISING COMPANY to do it.
Really, the NHS should have an in-house data exploitation centre. Research should be invited (and the data 'rented out') but should be done on the premises, using NHS hardware; the data should never leave.