5 Questions:How This Airborne Ranger Found Success in Tech

Big data is inevitable, pervasive, and unstoppable. Take the Equifax hit for example. Your only safety is the sheer numbers of the thing. You can't avoid data being collected about yourself, unless you're a Luddite who has no personal connected devices, and even then, your checks, CC's, club cards are being tracked. I look at this pragmatically, just like I did when I learned of the NSA's vacuuming of all the metadata in the US: No one on the planet cares about you telling your granny that you love her. So some supercomputer heard you say it. Your anonymity is going to be your sheer mundane-ness. In the same vein, the odds of you being one out of billions who are hacked every day, to get real-life impacted by said hacks, are actually pretty low. That's a sucky statement, I know it. But that's the reality, and in truth, what the fuck can you do about it? Nothing. Nothing at all.

SN Greg Wright - I'm not sure if you're responding to the article or my mentioning big data. In hindsight I get that the statement may seem like I'm focusing on that single aspect, but I wasn't. It was merely that someone shared an article and the Vet is actually on RP. . .

SGT (Join to see) It was an interesting article. We do not realize the amount of Data we put out there. For example, my wife looked at one of those "Firemen" calendars, and the next thing she knew, she was getting bombarded with adds for Chip n Dales, etc.. My point is this, no matter how hard we try to limit our data footprint, we are making it bigger. Use a debit card here, credit card there, etc.. and all of it is collected. My concern with "data scientists" is "who watched the watchers"? In this day and age of people using a statement or action taken out of context to destroy someone's livelihood or people using that data to commit fraud, that is a big concern. It should be an "opt-in" not an "opt-out" as it currently is, if you want your data collected and sold by companies.

I hope that all made sense.

Hey guys! Thanks for the mention SGT Jacqueem Spratley, I didn't even realize this got posted here. I hope the career advice is helpful. As for the app, we're using Amazon Web Services to collect, store, and analyze our data on a private subnet. The data is for research and development purposes only and won't be shown (or sold!) to any 3rd party. We also collect only the vital signs themselves, not a full medical history.