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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: reaganaut
They falsely assume that your search records are about you.

How... convenient.

Beast.gov: malevolent, capricious, vindictive, and stupid.

41 posted on 10/28/2015 8:33:02 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


42 posted on 10/28/2015 8:36:50 PM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


43 posted on 10/28/2015 8:38:09 PM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


44 posted on 10/28/2015 8:38:33 PM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

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.


45 posted on 10/28/2015 8:39:12 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Downright Orvellian!


46 posted on 10/28/2015 8:48:32 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: reaganaut

For sure all gun owners or anyone interested in guns will be found “mentally unstable”.


47 posted on 10/28/2015 8:54:14 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: MarchonDC09122009

“[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.”


48 posted on 10/28/2015 9:12:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
"sadly necessary"

I think not.

49 posted on 10/28/2015 9:13:00 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Ezekiel

50 posted on 10/28/2015 9:29:11 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: 444Flyer
Google wants to monitor your mental health.

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.

51 posted on 10/28/2015 9:41:32 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Aside from the outrageous invasion of privacy, big brotherism etc. 90% of my health related searching is to learn more about an existing condition of a friend or relative. I'm sure that many if not most people do the same making the use of our internet searches indicators of our individual health situations extremely inaccurate and - like most govt programs - a total waste of money.
52 posted on 10/28/2015 9:54:44 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Muggers, rapists, pedophiles, bureaucrats, and POLITICIANS want you disarmed.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
A friendly reminder, if you're looking for a private search engine, please consider:


53 posted on 10/28/2015 10:03:20 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Grams A; GraceG
Hack into lib neighbors wifi and run google script with extremist search terms.....

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.

54 posted on 10/29/2015 12:38:11 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Anybody

How do I install Ixquick as my default search engine in Chrome?

https://support.ixquick.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/201/0/how-do-i-install-ixquick-as-my-default-search-engine-in-chrome


55 posted on 10/29/2015 1:16:56 AM PDT by deks
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To: tacticalogic
This could be fun. Scripted random searches can pollute the results with so much garbage they won’t be able to make heads or tails of it.

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!!

Donate to Cruz

Donate to FR

56 posted on 10/29/2015 3:10:09 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Minority Report...

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.

57 posted on 10/29/2015 3:19:40 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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”


58 posted on 10/29/2015 3:41:53 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Use the noscript add on.


59 posted on 10/29/2015 5:03:25 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


60 posted on 10/29/2015 5:18:11 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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