All Your Data Belongs To Us

[SueEllen]

Mmm...

Turned on the telly and Watchdog is mentioning this

[AtW]

Consecutive posting

[ladymuck]

Stop the consecutive posting

You could always engage a bit of restraint instead of producing a near-constant stream of utter drivel

[AtW]

You could always engage a bit of restraint instead of producing a near-constant stream of utter drivel

I could, but then it would hit my goal of getting to 100,000 posts…

Also…

[ladymuck]

I could, but then it would hit my goal of getting to 100,000 posts…

Also…

Aww you still have a dream! That's cute

[AtW]

Aww you still have a dream! That's cute

I am not married.

In any case it’s important to set challenging, yet realistic goals in life…

[OwlHoot]

The data they use is anonymous. All you're doing by excluding your data is holding up medical research.

I used to work for a major Internet company and the privacy laws in this sector are taken very seriously. There's no way you can trace this data back to an individual.

So naive - The data will be priceless to large pharmaceutical companies flogging expensive treatments, and the Government will never be able to resist the temptation to release the personalised data for large sums, so those companies can spam people with ads to treat relevant ailments.

[xoggoth]

Hmmmmm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ners-warn.html

It ain't necessarily false because it's in the DM.

[ladymuck]

So naive - The data will be priceless to large pharmaceutical companies flogging expensive treatments, and the Government will never be able to resist the temptation to release the personalised data for large sums, so those companies can spam people with ads to treat irrelevant ailments.

FTFY

The aim of the pharmaceutical industry is to create a drug for a problem that doesn't exist then convince people they have something wrong that needs fixing. If they can repurpose an existing drug for a new ailment that keeps it out of the mits of the generic drug producers and keeps it in copyright (or whatever it is, I forget) then they get 'double bubble' revenue. Viagra is an excellent example (originally hypertension, then keeping your pecker up), Liraglutide is another (originally diabetes control, then weight loss).

Not saying erectile dysfunction and obesity are irrelevant or not important but they are essentially selling a drug developed for one thing for another purpose because of its side effects. Mining that data from medical records will lead to more of that 'find a problem to sell a fix for'.

[SueEllen]

Hmmmmm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ners-warn.html

It ain't necessarily false because it's in the DM.

If The Guardian (leftie), The DM (right), the Beeb (opposite political wing to what you believe), the FT ( monied wing), the Metro (commuter wing) and others media outlets are all raising alarms over this, then it people need to revolt and opt-out on mass to make the government reconsider.