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bb10adopter111 IMO, you're looking at risk in a very narrow way. The risks are not that one person's information will be used for a cyber crime. The risk is that the use of big data combined with machine learning, high speed automation and AI will make it pretty simple to influence people's opinions and choices by manipulating the timing and substance of the information they receive.
Beyond that, our inability to maintain privacy about everything from our purchasing habits to career plans to romantic partners ton political views may degrade our sense of self as individuals.
I love technology, and am optimistic about our future, but there are significant repercussions that may result from indiscriminate use of technology without proper public debate and political decision-making about how to protect our rights as individuals and the integrity of our society.
To say that Google following the rules of its TOS regarding privacy is sufficient to protect us is like saying that the Boards of Directors of financial companies following their risk management rules in 2003-7 was sufficient to protect the integrity of our financial system.
It is dangerous to underestimated the magnitude of risks we haven't encountered before,
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