This should be ruled trickery as that’s what it really is. When you read the snip from the press release on Neurotrack, this is a “risk assessment” tool and not a diagnosis tool as they would like you to think. This is software and there’ no genomic technol…
Continue ReadingJust when you think it can’t get any worse it does. If you read here often enough then you know I am a privacy advocate and have had an informal campaign going for a few years on indexing and licensing data sellers, that take your data, without your permissi…
Continue ReadingFortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data. When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data. I’ve been writing about …
Continue ReadingThis is the way the crappy algorithms crumble. What was once a great way of communicating what’s going on in the world is in algorithmic and monetary shambles. First I like to point fingers at the greedy corporations out there who won’t spend a few more buc…
Continue ReadingI had to include the bit about the comparison here about doctors and pilots as this correlation over the years has been used so many times and some very strange writings as doctor are not pilots, but some folks seem to think the two are more similar than they…
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your ac…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a while since I hit this one but since last time, of course, things are getting worse out there. With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, …
Continue ReadingWith prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and number crunches used for a lot of what we saw, but today it’s the …
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