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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.
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 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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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.
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.
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Don't cross the Streams
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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.
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.