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James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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Re: James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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I feel like I keep seeing these as science fair wins and innovation award wins, but where are they in real life? Are they making it to (the biomedical equivalent of) prod?

In the US, the FDA usually has to approve medical devices like this. 23 and Me was paused while they talked to the FDA.

The cloud connection of the award winner is of some concern. Should you include PII and a sample, US health insurers could use that against you in the future for pre-existing conditions.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/vitro-diagnostics/direct...

Re: James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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So you send your urine test results to the "cloud". Now the Google engineers will know whether you are going to die even before your doctor does. That's just great.

can't wait to see ads for coffins and start wondering if google knows more than I do.

Re: James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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So you send your urine test results to the "cloud". Now the Google engineers will know whether you are going to die even before your doctor does. That's just great.

Reading „cloud“ and „cancer test“ in the same article gives me the shivers. This is arguably one of the most sensitive pieces of information one can own about a person. The NN could just run in the app, recent phones are heavily optimized for this anyway.

Re: James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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So you send your urine test results to the "cloud". Now the Google engineers will know whether you are going to die even before your doctor does. That's just great.

wow, there's no mentioning of Google in the article at all (ctrl-F showed no hit); Even then, "Google engineers" do NOT just get access to GCP client's data... it would be a immense breach of client trust for GCP and would be a code red for google immediately.

Please refrain from making strenuous, baseless connections to arbitrary articles for your own privacy vendetta. It helps nobody.

Re: James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

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So you send your urine test results to the "cloud". Now the Google engineers will know whether you are going to die even before your doctor does. That's just great.

Reading „cloud“ and „cancer test“ in the same article gives me the shivers. This is arguably one of the most sensitive pieces of information one can own about a person. The NN could just run in the app, recent phones are heavily optimized for this anyway.

On the fence about this. On the one hand I agree that sensitive data should stay local, but on the other hand this would make their very valuable asset (the model) public.
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