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Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:15pm | posted by Luke Brady

This article by the New York Times talks about how technology could be used track Flu movements, market down-turns and potentially deny insurance coverage.  I’m about the biggest fan of Google out of everyone I’ve ever met, but Google’s success at

collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.

 

I’m not saying Google itself doesn’t treat it’s users privacy responsibly, but certainly some have viewed it as a case study which

has touched off a race to cash in on collective intelligence technologies.

 

The question is this, when will the government try to get it’s hands on these types of trends and how will they abuse that information?

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