Posted by alexandra_k on August 16, 2018, at 18:43:25
In reply to Re: to alexandra_k, credit deserves... » ert, posted by alexandra_k on August 16, 2018, at 18:36:21
I mean, think about bank data. That's how much money you have coming in, and all the outgoings. Do you have a supermarket card? That's itemisation of everything you purchase. You can match that to things like which items were on special and product placement and so on if you cared to (pretty sure that's what the supermarket cards are for). Then you have peoples facebook posts - what they like and so on. You have information about their product purchases (including medications). You can get health information from health information billing administrative systems...
The companies with the Software... I think it would be disingeuous to think that they weren't profiting from the data they have...
But from that kind of point of view...
What would this site add to the picture?
I don't know how much things are a mess, really, with collating various things. I know it is likely that there is a dearth of expertise, really, and thus pretty likely that things do work together at the end of the day (like how in this part of the world, anyway, there aren't changes to the make up of parliament or parliamentary advisors and so on from one election to the next in total disregard of who wins the damned thing). So I would expect there would likely be more.
And it's all billing or administrative data. So it's not protected as being anything special...
I think it is actuaries. Health insurance companies. Big data, sure. Stuff about distributing risk. Basically about protecting the few at the expense of the many. Future projections... Get whatever whatever to buy in... And now the situation is that the future must simply come to be. Whether the future be that many people will need to live in aged care institutions or the future will be that most of them will be indigenous or whatever... People just... Accept it.
People just accept that politicans and people on councils and boards earn so very much money... Just take it. Just take it from the tax money that was (for the most part) taken from other people. People accept it. Like to like and follow these people. Admire them. Want to be them.
I don't know how they live with themselves.
But they do.
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