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Google wants to monitor your mental health. Plan to monitor search history and report to gov't
The Telegraph UK ^ | 10/28/2015 | James Kirkup

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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To: MarchonDC09122009

Google helped cause the ruination of Libya, and provided the same infrastructure in Egypt for the attempted take-over of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Now these liberal fascists are planning to take away fundamental freedoms of privacy and speech.

Boycott Google, use Norton Safe Search or http:// www.startpage.com


61 posted on 10/29/2015 5:49:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Pontiac

I said I would love to be able to - didn’t say I would. My neighbor is from Russia and is an HB1’er expert in IT, wife from China also on an HB1 and works in IT - already been to court with him once because I cut the part of his tree that was hanging WAY over on my property. He lost. Not a good relationship and I try to ignore them.


62 posted on 10/29/2015 6:26:15 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
And this is why Google, and all such other entities, need to be busted up. They have too much power, and they need to relinquish it.

So much power concentrated in non-regulated hands is subject to abuse.

63 posted on 10/29/2015 8:00:46 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks for the ping. Google is the most evil corporation in the world.


64 posted on 10/29/2015 8:04:03 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Google started with the slogan “Don’t Be Evil.”

Now their slogan is “BOOTS ON YOUR FACE, YOU PLEBIAN”


65 posted on 10/29/2015 8:06:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The AntiChrist will first come from Google.


66 posted on 10/29/2015 8:06:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Wise observation and recommendation.
Unfortunately, Google has become too influential, too big to split up, or fail.
The only thing we can do is start a widespread boycott all services and products that are enemies of our constitution.
A massive undertaking, but necessary.
Our ability to act and restore liberty is vanishing quickly.


67 posted on 10/29/2015 8:25:11 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
The only thing we can do is start a widespread boycott all services and products that are enemies of our constitution.

I make every effort to not use Google. I hate Microsoft too, but right now I consider them a lesser evil, so I use Bing.

But yes, we need to figure out ways to remove ourselves from their influence, and vice versa.

68 posted on 10/29/2015 8:38:48 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I am a computer developer. Perhaps I can work on a solution that makes sense.


69 posted on 10/29/2015 9:13:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Over here. This is big shit.


70 posted on 10/29/2015 9:14:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah, this scares me. As the analytical type, I do a lot of research about things that interest me. If one tried to assess my mental health condition from my search history, one could conclude some truly frightening things.


71 posted on 10/29/2015 9:22:01 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Lazamataz
I am a computer developer. Perhaps I can work on a solution that makes sense.

You are thinking along the right lines, but I'm thinking we need many thousands more of people such as yourself.

I've been thinking we need an independent internet. One that does not rely so heavily on companies from San Fransisco and Redmond Washington.

72 posted on 10/29/2015 11:16:09 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

It always starts with one man with a vision.


73 posted on 10/29/2015 11:31:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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