Posted on 10/28/2015 7:15:26 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Telegraph.co.uk Google wants to monitor your mental health. You should welcome it into your mind Yes, you should tell the computer what you're thinking By James Kirkup 6:24PM GMT 28 Oct 2015 The use of technology to track and treat mental illness is deeply worrying but sadly necessary Next week, Dr Tom Insel leaves his post as head of the US National Institute of Mental Health, a job that made him America’s top mental health doctor. Dr Insel is a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist and a leading authority on both the medicine and public policies needed to deal with problems of the mind. He’s 64 but he’s not retiring. He’s going to work for Google. More precisely, he’s going to work for Google Life Sciences, one of the more exotic provinces of the online empire. He’s going to investigate how technology can help diagnose and treat mental health conditions. Google doesn’t just want to read your mind, it wants to fix it too. It’s not alone. Apple, IBM and Intel are among technology companies exploring the same field. IBM this year carried out research with Columbia University that suggested computer analysis of speech patterns can more accurately predict the onset of psychosis than conventional tests involving blood samples or brain scans. **Other researchers theorise that a person’s internet search history or even shopping habits (so handily recorded by your innocuous loyalty card) can identify the first signs of mental illness. Computers can now tell when something is about to go terribly wrong in someone’s mind. "We now live in a world where your phone might observe you to help assess your mental health." That development is striking enough in itself, but the way in which researchers like Dr Insel want to use this new technological power raises even more questions.
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How... convenient.
Beast.gov: malevolent, capricious, vindictive, and stupid.
It is bad enough that the medical profession asks invading questions for 0’care.
I can lie about those. I don’t like to lie, but it is none of their business I own a gun.
They can’t even treat my chronic pain correctly.
It is bad enough that the medical profession asks invading questions for 0’care.
I can lie about those. I don’t like to lie, but it is none of their business I own a gun.
They can’t even treat my chronic pain correctly.
Weird the warning came up that FR is a not trusted site. BS. MORE google dirty dealing.
It is bad enough that the medical profession asks invading questions for 0’care.
I can lie about those. I don’t like to lie, but it is none of their business I own a gun.
They can’t even treat my chronic pain correctly.
Weird the warning came up that FR is a not trusted site. BS. MORE google dirty dealing.
RE: “Assymetry works in our favor on this one.”
Very true, and helpful post.
Concern is now that a fascist commercial-Gov’t citizen data sharing pipeline exists, it can be used against a citizen via non-refutable false accusation.
Remember, the 2012 NDAA that was signed into law calls indefinite detention without due process of any citizen who’s found to be belligerent toward government.
Everything is falling into place in a Soviet way.
Downright Orvellian!
For sure all gun owners or anyone interested in guns will be found “mentally unstable”.
“[I]f we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
I think not.
Remember when years back, some thought we were nuts for suggesting that grocery store databases created from "club cards" could be abused by government/insurance companies?
Nurse Ratched is watching for the SAM-e in your shopping cart.
Laugh as they take lib neighbors to looney bin....
Before you do that you had better learn how to mask your computer's MAC address.
Or clone your neighbor's computer's MAC address.
How do I install Ixquick as my default search engine in Chrome?
More likely they will just assume that there are even more nuts out here than they expected to find and report us all...
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other FReeloader.....
GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
Amazing how they telegraph their punches, but instead of a pot full of psychics, they'll just program it to pick out the things other people like and they don't.
Bob Dylan said it well many year ago...
“And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine”
Use the noscript add on.
I just got a notice from Verizon that they’ve incorporated AOL into their system, with all that implies. We are running out of choices because the providers are merging.
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