Ditocoaf posted:

This poo poo won't be pre-installed in the houses of the very rich, and/or influential. Privacy won't cease to exist, but it might become prohibitively expensive.

SlothfulCobra posted:

The real downside is that you have people who instead of being destroyed by scandal, they just publicly bond with eachother over how terrible they are, like how all the rapists and molesters sure seem to support eachother and a slew of people literally got elected by pandering hard to nazis.

Because some people's horrible secrets are not relatable to you, but it turns out that there is a sizable chunk of the population who are totally onboard. When the horrible secrets stop having to be secret, something has gone very wrong.

vyelkin posted:

my secret hope is that millennials' insane levels of irony and meme humour is paving the road for a future where amazon tries to blackmail a politician by releasing their sex audio recorded by alexa and the politician's response is "yeah i eat rear end so what" and then they're reelected with 69% of the vote

Ditocoaf posted:

This poo poo won't be pre-installed in the houses of the very rich, and/or influential. Privacy won't cease to exist, but it might become prohibitively expensive.

DONT THREAD ON ME posted:

yup, apple might end up being the privacy company for the rich, or maybe that will be someone else. either way it's coming.

Shear Modulus posted:

that's been part of apple's brand for several years now

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

This pretty much happened already

Dude bragged into a hot mic about sexually assaulting women while using an especially profane word for vagina. The media acted all shocked but it turns out nobody cares

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

This pretty much happened already

Dude bragged into a hot mic about sexually assaulting women while using an especially profane word for vagina. The media acted all shocked but it turns out nobody cares

LastInLine posted:

Why, exactly, would someone care if the only candidate representing their interests was a total shitlord? If some candidate told me the only things they do are gently caress children and kill the bourgeoisie, well, I guess I'm voting for the pedophile.

zoux posted:

redleader posted:

yeah, but you know when he's elected he'll just gently caress a lot of children and not guillotine any bourgeoisie

quote:

Florida offers a glimpse of where it all may head: Lawmakers there are pushing for a state database that would combine individuals' educational, criminal justice, and social-service records with their social media data, then share it all with law enforcement.

vyelkin posted:

i dont want a world where instead of goatse people trick you by redirecting you to alexa audio of somebody like ted cruz having sex

lemonadesweetheart posted:

https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/...er%3D53%23pti19

lemonadesweetheart posted:

https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/...er%3D53%23pti19

lemonadesweetheart posted:

https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/...er%3D53%23pti19

vyelkin posted:

Tollymain posted:

is there a non sky news source

quote:

In one particularly callous memo, written in March 1985, an official discusses data suggesting that 40% of those infected with HIV by contaminated blood products will go on to develop Aids and die (a vast underestimate, as it turned out). While acknowledging the “strong cost-benefit plus”, in terms of lives saved, of taking steps to prevent the remainder of the haemophiliac population becoming infected with Aids, the memo points out that if the anticipated number of infected haemophiliacs’ deaths is reached, this will be financially advantageous. “Of course, the maintenance of the life of a haemophiliac is itself expensive, and I am very much afraid that those who are already doomed will generate savings which more than cover the cost of testing blood donations.”

That document does not surprise Goodyear. “We were constantly reminded how much we cost. As a child I knew how much factor VIII cost because I was always reminded by doctors. It was around £7,000 a year at the time, about £20,000 today. It was drummed into us how much we cost the state, and how much could be saved if we weren’t here.” Goodyear says many doctors made it clear they believed haemophiliacs were not worth the money spent on them. “A doctor in the 70s once said to my dad, ‘The best thing for haemophiliacs would be to let them all go because it’s a terrible condition.’”

quote:

Bit by bit, over the past 28 years, Colin’s parents have been piecing together the full story. Three years after his death they discovered he had hepatitis C as well as Aids. Documents have since been disclosed that show Professor Bloom, who died in 1992, had been fully aware all along of the risk of hepatitis from contaminated factor products. In January 1982, more than a year before Bloom treated Colin, he and his then boss at the Oxford haemophilia centre wrote to all the centres in the country, telling them new preparations of factor VIII were going to be processed through heat treatment, “to reduce the risk of transmitting hepatitis B and non-A non-B”. (Seven years later, hepatitis non-A non-B became known as hepatitis C.) They explained that initial batches had been tested on chimpanzees but “it is unlikely the manufacturers will be able to guarantee this form of quality control for future batches… It is therefore very important to find out by studies in human beings to what extent the infectivity of the various concentrates has been reduced. The most clear-cut way of doing this is by administering those concentrates to patients requiring treatment who have not been previously exposed to large pool concentrates.”

The acronym used was Pups – previously untreated patients. They were in effect being experimented on. A year after writing this letter, Bloom became director of the Cardiff haemophilia centre, where Colin was one of his pups.

The Guardian posted:

The awful truth is that the boys were separated deliberately, as were many other sets of adoptive twins (though no other adoptive triplets that we know about) at the behest of distinguished psychologist Peter B Neubauer, who had instituted a secret research project to get to the bottom of the nature-versus-nurture debate.
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His findings were never published and the identities of the “private Washington charities” who bankrolled this creepy scheme remain a mystery.

SlothfulCobra posted:

There's also a documentary on a set of triplets who were all separated at birth in another secret study.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/28/three-identical-strangers-review-triplets-research-tim-wardle


Maybe don't do huge life-changing things to small children without any consent or disclosure.

quote:

A year later, though, Securly also began offering "sentiment analysis" of students' social media posts, looking for signs they might be victims of cyberbullying or self-harm.

In 2016, the company expanded that analysis to students' school email accounts, monitoring all messages sent over district networks. It also created an "emotionally intelligent" app that sends parents weekly reports and automated push notifications detailing their children's internet searches and browsing histories, according to a presentation delivered at the conference.

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Alternatively, creating an entire generations worth of panic attacked foulmouthed asocial gamers who wouldn't win a war against vietnamese people. (Also.)
Honestly I think we are all still underestimating just how good the Vietnamese are at this.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1136685959871979520

it's worse than it sounds:

https://twitter.com/fart/status/1136048881047785472

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

did hendren become a juggalo?

SlothfulCobra posted:

Disney paid $4 billion to have immediate access to all of these people as a market, I will never, ever have sympathy for them having to deal with dorks like these.

They deserve every fan going crazy at them because that's what they bought.