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Google: ‘I’m Feeling Sicky’Posted on Nov 12, 2008
While worries over Google’s “big brother” surveillance practices still worry many, a softer, more health-conscious side of the search giant is partnering with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The tool, “Google Flu Trends,” uses the aggregate regional data obtained from flu-related searches to predict epidemics weeks before they can be diagnosed by traditional measures.
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By Sta.Claws, November 12, 2008 at 1:05 pm Link to this comment
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google searches
google mail
google photos
google documents
Don’t forget that google mail used to (might still) require an invitation. In that way they connected all users through that one invitation thread.
The govt. said “oh no we’re not going to develop Carnivore, we’ve scrapped that.” Yeah they did, google’s the new Carnivore.
But now we can forgive all that, they’re giving us flu data.
I mean who needs privacy or any of those other protections?
In case you asked, no one’s guarding the guards, that’s who.
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