Google is studying each person's mental tracking method

Does this open the door to a new debate about the privacy of every human being?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has just recruited an expert in Psychology, Thomas Insel, a former director of the Mental Health Institute, who had many ideas related to Google's new project.
Insel said he still wasn't sure about Google's intentions, but he said he wanted to use Google's data mining facility to study each person's mental health, in the context of suicides. due to increasing psychological problems in the United States.

" We won't be able to stop suicides if we don't take care of them psychologically when they need it. It's not the same as tracking cancer, heart disease or diabetes," he said.

So how to prevent suicides or technology? Insel says he wants to develop sensors that can be worn or installed directly on the human body to monitor each person's stress level and awareness. That product will allow you to track the details of sleep, travel and even how you use words in life. All will give a result that determines your psychological status.

Maybe Google's project will launch new things, instead of turning this idea into a conventional wearable device.

But there are still many problems with this idea. Unlike physical trackers that have been developed and used for a long time, it helps us know the heart rate, blood pressure as well as energy consumed during exercise. According to Insel, the results from the physical condition may also help in determining the psychological status of each person. But not everyone shows the same outward emotion.

If allowed, we can fully assess the mental health of each person through different behavior and health factors. However, Google does not want to use health monitoring devices to perform this process.

It is easy to understand why this professor wanted to use Google's inherent infrastructure with powerful data analysis capabilities. He continues to monitor suicide rates in the United States in the hope of being able to intervene early and save those lives. Most people who intend to commit suicide fall into a state of previous depression. With a device that can record and calculate the stress that each person is experiencing, everything will definitely change.

However, personal security issues will again cause a controversy, when the data relating to your physical and mental use is used for what purpose and is it kept private? If such detailed personal information is disclosed including the identities of people involved such as a doctor or fitness trainer, there will be many problems with users.

Portraits of Thomas Insel, who wants to transform and develop the ability to monitor the most superior human health.

Going back to how this new system works, according to Insel's imagination, Google's servers are powerful enough to analyze millions of personal data, and send information related to our health. Go to the nearest medical facility where the object is located.Doctors will be able to promptly assist in cases of excessive stress and prevent possible unfortunate consequences.

In fact, there are technologies that can accurately measure the level of emotional turmoil, but the ability to apply to the issue of people is not really high. However, the bottom line is that these applications cannot be well connected with analytical hardware and synchronization. That will make this product lose its meaning in time to bring the project forward.

Immediately, Insel said he wanted to use the analyzed data to control the mental illness of the mentally ill.
Hopefully, when Google project is successful, users will be the most beneficiaries. There will no longer be psychological problems if always followed by Google's psychiatrist.