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2 responses to ““If you let Google have your data, why not the NHS?” | …or, indeed, the Police? The security services? Glib, dehumanising foolishness from @phillipinman …”

1. 2024/10/20

   gwire

   @alecm the anti big-tech tone is odd though, absent legislation (eg EU) I would absolutely expect the UK government to sell citizen data to big tech in exchange for money or services.
2. 2024/11/05

   Drew

   This sounds like la la land “the government always knows best” hogwash.

   Also, the “big tech” overlords can’t kick down your door in the early AM, arrest you, and put you in prison.

   Part of the root of the problem here is too many human beings, and that some of those humans are convinced they know better than you how you should live your life. Whether they are in the private or public sector.

   Most of us like to share, if that weren’t the case, then “social media” wouldn’t be so popular.

   It’s a smear to use the word “addicted” in describing how companies want customers to deal/feel about their products.

   “It is the private sector that wants to use and manipulate digital information much more than the state could ever conceive of doing.”

   What a load. Pot?t? potato, tom?t? tomato. Power drunk asses will use the means they can. In the U.S. lawyer$ working for major corp$ take a pay cut to “work for the government” for “public service” then after they’ve bastardized prominent legislation, they “retire from public service” and go back to the companies they previously worked for. Ka-ching! On the other hand some politicians stay in government far too long, thus term limits were enacted.

   I’m not anti-capitalism, but dislike the lies and manipulation.

   “Britain is very good at the marketing and sale of things that are bad for us.”

   They should check out the Bible. Read about how much God liked what the Canaanites became expert at (ahem marketing). This is not about Britain. One might as well say the same thing about the U.S. and other locations.

   There’s a decent middle ground between saying how awesome we are and how horrible we are. One problem is, who is willing to pay for that? We all want an income to pay for stuff. Clickbait sells better. ?

   Did these health experts take a nice long look at how Sweden handled COVID better than so many other countries? … As I sit with my mother, daughter of a Swedish immigrant, she is practically demanding I get yet another COVID shot. She’s mostly unaware of what happens in Sweden and instead is bewildered by the U.S. main stream media.

   Also worthy of note is how Google handled the cases of two parents concerned about their children, compared to what the government did.

   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse

   Sorry if I spammed your blog. Time to go cook dinner. ?

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