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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer... by fastball on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:55PM (#25521463)
With the extraordinary claims, the extraordinary evidence usually needs to directly pertain to the claims.

It is not "extraordinary claims require other similar extraordinary things to have happened in the past". That is not evidence for your claim.

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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer... by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:04PM (#25521568)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, yes.

The point is that "corporations will monetize data" isn't an extraordinary claim.

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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer... by fastball on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:12PM (#25521646)
No, that is an ordinary claim, and one that has plenty of ordinary evidence to back it up.

This company will monetize this data is also an ordinary claim (from history), but similarly needs evidence. "Companies have monetized similar in the past" is not evidence they'll do it in this case.

If you're a gambler, you should absolutely use that fact to inform your betting, but it's not evidence.

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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer... by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:26PM (#25521790)
I'm not a fan of "regulators must allow actual harm before intervening" here.
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