If such apps exist, why aren’t they widely available?
Ask HN: Why don't we have a mobile app to screen for skin cancer?
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#4- Someone exposes some CSAM picture to the app/smartphone and somehow the Government gets the fact of owning the photo. For example, Apple's neural network will have a big fun scanning images of somebody's skin.
- Someone sues the app because of false positive or false negative or just stupidity.
- Snoop-phone is a security nightmare because traditionally any app tries to steal and sell every piece of data possible, having anything medical on the snoop-phone means that any capitalist knows something which is supposed to be private.
- Some problems might happen because of race questions, I mean some issues related to skin color.
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#6Medical industry is the least developed among industries/sciences. There is too much of regulation/censourship, here is the quick list of problems that will inevitably happen: - Someone exposes some CSAM picture to the app/smartphone and somehow the Government gets the fact of owning the photo. For example, Apple's neural network will have a big fun scanning images of somebody's skin. - Someone sues the app because o…
Re: Ask HN: Why don't we have a mobile app to screen for skin cancer?
#7Medical industry is the least developed among industries/sciences. There is too much of regulation/censourship, here is the quick list of problems that will inevitably happen: - Someone exposes some CSAM picture to the app/smartphone and somehow the Government gets the fact of owning the photo. For example, Apple's neural network will have a big fun scanning images of somebody's skin. - Someone sues the app because o…
None of the potential problems you list have anything to do with how developed or regulated the medical industry is.