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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by shadowgovt on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:42AM (#22107278)
Let's assume Google pulls a "gotcha" five years down the road and meshes its medical data into its advertising data.

What incentive do doctors and patients have to keep vending the data to Google at that point? And what incentive would other Cloud customers have to trust their data wouldn't get aggregated?

The GCP business model is different from Google's other business models and they know it.

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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by jblwps on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:12PM (#22108862)
> What incentive do doctors and patients have to keep vending the data to Google at that point?

Inertia, if nothing else. Moving platforms, especially in a highly-regulated industry, is no small thing.

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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by shadowgovt on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:29PM (#22109849)
That argument seems insufficient, or inertia would prevent people from moving onto the platform in the first place.
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