Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer...
by fastball on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:01PM
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Yes, and water is wet. But water and pine sap are to the best of our knowledge fairly homogenous, while companies are definitely not that.
Complex things are, well, complex, and absolutely not all the same.
Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumer...
by harry8 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:39PM
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They're not homogenous. The companies that don't make money go broke and cease to be. No sign of that from Google. They're buying the data to monetize it. If they were doing something unexpected like destroying it for the greater good they'd announce it.
The extraordinary thing here is if they bought the data to /not/ monetize it. That requires the evidence. Not the overwhelmingly expected thing. They are mutually exclusive alternatives after all. Go with the overwhelmingly likely one until you've got a solid reason not to. We don't here.
Like if you claimed "pine sap is sticky" I don't feel compelled to challenge you and demand to touch it myself before I believe you. I've encountered plenty of pine sap in my life, and it was all sticky. I _have_ evidence that pine sap is sticky generally, so I don't demand _extra_ evidence that a _specific_ portion of sap is sticky.