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[CM] Google's Larry Page on Privacy

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From the «I don't think that word means what you think it means» department:
Title: Larry Page on privacy
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:07:57 -0400
Link: http://osnews.com/story/27804/Larry_Page_on_privacy

Google CEO Larry Page on privacy issues: I'm not trying to minimize the
issues. For me, I'm so excited about the possibilities to improve things for
people, my worry would be the opposite. We get so worried about these things
that we don't get the benefits. I think that's what's happened in health
care. We've decided, through regulation largely, that data is so locked up
that it can't be used to benefit people very well. Right now we don't
data-mine health care data. If we did we'd probably save 100,000 lives next
year. I'm very worried that the media and governments will try to stoke the
people's fears and we'll end up in a state where we could benefit a lot of
people but we re not able to do that. That's the likely outcome. The problem
is not that people aren't open to the possible benefits from information
gleamed from large piles of data. No, the problem is that both governments
and companies alike have a history of abusing and/or leaking this data. In
other words, the people's skepticism is entirely the industry's own fault.
Introspection, Mr. Page.

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