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Re:Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal... by drilldrive on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:38AM (#19461560)
It is technically discrimination though, as the company would be treating unfit people differently than fit people on the average. I think that the word discrimination is unjustly given a sort of taboo meaning in that any actual discrimination is horrible. And yet nearly everything that we do relies on discriminating.
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Re:Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal... by tomp on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:54AM (#19461653)
Indeed, it has a strong connotation, I guess I should have used unfair discrimination or bigoted discrimination or something... Although to avoid confusion, I prefer to use a different word for "legitimate differences", such as distinguish or differentiate.
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