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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by manmal on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:52AM (#25158929)
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.
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by yread on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:24AM (#25159091)
Is it really that scary? In countries with sane laws and/or universal health care you can shout about your cancer diagnosis from the rooftops.
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by peteradio on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:22AM (#25160649)
Now imagine you live in a country without sane (or sanely enforced) protective laws _OR_ universal healthcare!
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by mixedbit on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:34AM (#25159131)
Do cloud tests really change much? How many people will start Googling information about a disease as soon as they have a positive diagnosis, giving Google the information without any cloud tests.
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by manmal on Saturday November 21, 2020 @11:03AM (#25170387)
I could be googling for a relative, or because of an upcoming test. An uploaded test is a hard fact.
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by skummetmaelk on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:39AM (#25159152)
Your argument is that because things are already bad it doesn't hurt to make them worse?
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by mixedbit on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:50AM (#25159208)
No, it wasn't my argument
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Re:James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winn... by skrunch on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:16AM (#25159050)
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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