Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
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Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
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Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#2If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it.
Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data.
I am not worried about Google knowing more about me or humans. I am more worried about how safe my records are with my clinics and hospitals. See [1]
Lastly, personal question: how do you get into Google X?
[1]: http://www.scmagazine.com/rhode-island-hospital-to-pay-150k-...
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#3If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it. Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data. I am not worried about Google knowin…
I don't know how you get in, but you can apply to Google X by searching their jobs site for "Special Projects" or the specific project (for example "Makani", "Loon", etc)
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#4If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it. Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data. I am not worried about Google knowin…
Have there been any reports of anything bad happening to any of those 12,000 people because of the leaked data?
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#5If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it. Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data. I am not worried about Google knowin…
I would be more worried that the results of these studies are not made freely available to everybody. I prefer having research funded by public money without seeking a profit.
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#6If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it. Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data. I am not worried about Google knowin…
I would be more worried that the results of these studies are not made freely available to everybody. I prefer having research funded by public money without seeking a profit.
What do you mean they are funded by public money? I thought Google is paying a clinic to get samples and pay researchers to work on the project, but the researchers have to get approval from the review board of their respective institution. The review board is funded by public money (more or less) I guess, but other than that, what else?
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#7If they can truly protect the anonymity of donator data, I wouldn't mind to be part of it. Heck, when I donate my blood I am already giving a lot of information to the blood center and they know my blood type and can tell if I have certain diseases of not. When I volunteer to do bone marrow match test, I don't know how the firm handles my data. I supposed they can protect my data. I am not worried about Google knowin…
Have there been any reports of anything bad happening to any of those 12,000 people because of the leaked data?
see the page linking to the release (http://www.mass.gov/ago/news-and-updates/press-releases/2014...).
But the tapes are missing so who knows :(
I was just googling data breach for hospital; not rare.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would be more worried that the results of these studies are not made freely available to everybody. I prefer having research funded by public money without seeking a profit.
What do you mean they are funded by public money? I thought Google is paying a clinic to get samples and pay researchers to work on the project, but the researchers have to get approval from the review board of their respective institution. The review board is funded by public money (more or less) I guess, but other than that, what else?
As I understand it, the researcher works for Google, so I suppose that his results belong to Google. Is this not the case?
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#9anyone remember Gattaca ? well we could end up with data based classification version of that here !
Re: Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean they are funded by public money? I thought Google is paying a clinic to get samples and pay researchers to work on the project, but the researchers have to get approval from the review board of their respective institution. The review board is funded by public money (more or less) I guess, but other than that, what else?
As I understand it, the researcher works for Google, so I suppose that his results belong to Google. Is this not the case?
> I prefer having research funded by public money without seeking a profit.
Now that I read what you wrote twice I might interpret your original sentence wrong. I thought you were implying the work they doing with Google is using public money ("I prefer research funded by public money [done by these researchers to be non-profit].")
You meant you prefer to have public institutions to carry out the research.
Well, in that case, it's only temporary. There are public and private AIDS research, but in the end, the public research is used to seek for profit. Say Google, IBM, Microsoft donates 10B to make this a non-profit research, the end product (the algorithms, etc) will be used by private companies anyway. So I don't see how public vs private really matter if the data and results are going to be publicly known by private company later on for profit.
But if you are going for "pure knowledge", sure, public research would be ideal :D