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PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by scott_karana »

Interesting how thorough the app is. I suppose that'll set it apart from the simpler ovulation trackers.

What a huge mine of private data, however! Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?

Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by pallandt »

I really dislike it how 'big data' is increasingly mentioned left and right these days, even when the application context doesn't call for it. Perhaphs the reporter should've sticked with the safe option of what the app creator(s) used instead, 'data science' or data analysis.

Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by return0 »

scott_karana wrote: post #2

Interesting how thorough the app is. I suppose that'll set it apart from the simpler ovulation trackers. What a huge mine of private data, however! Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?

honestly, who cares about that data?

Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by CamperBob2 »

return0 wrote: post #4
scott_karana wrote: post #2

Interesting how thorough the app is. I suppose that'll set it apart from the simpler ovulation trackers. What a huge mine of private data, however! Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?

honestly, who cares about that data?

Religious people, for one.

Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by inselkampf »

I think they are on to something - this part for me stood out (quote from Max Levchin)

  "Anything that can be measured, you record—and
  it’s applied to things like managing your weight,
  or deciding how likely you are to dope in the Tour
  de France. But with infertility? You get a Xerox
  from the 1960s.”

Re: PayPal founder's new app aims to help couples conceive

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Post by scott_karana »

return0 wrote: post #4
scott_karana wrote: post #2

Interesting how thorough the app is. I suppose that'll set it apart from the simpler ovulation trackers. What a huge mine of private data, however! Can you imagine how it would feel to have someone else find a record of your sexual activity, including positions and count of female orgasms?

honestly, who cares about that data?

I'm sure people with marital problems might! :P

Why say "who cares" about privacy, anyways? Even if you don't personally need it, you needn't erode other a privacy someone else might value.

Privacy has a way of never returning once lost.

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