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BGAL7090 t1_j025oz6 wrote

Reply to comment by Banea-Vaedr in Facebook Leak Just One Reason Taxpayer Data Sharing Must Stop by aleahey

Not an expert on data collection and ethical data use, all I know is that instead of getting a dozen ads for prenatal vitamins when Big Data suspects you might be pregnant, there are a whole lot of other useful resources that might benefit someone in such a circumstance.

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Banea-Vaedr t1_j025tje wrote

Big data only suspects you're pregnant when you already know

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randalthor23 t1_j06rxq0 wrote

Not entirely, big data should be able to extrapolate changes in your activity and make reasnoble assumptions. Big data is 100% rational/logical and has no emotions tied to its decision making, it has idetic memory and will never forget something, and can VERY easily track your standard patterns and identify/track deviations from it.

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Im not saying Bid Data will always know every time for everyone, but just disagreeing with the fact that Big Data will only know after you start searching for pregnancy/child related items.

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