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Suicide hotline shares data with for profit company (www.politico.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“These are people at their worst moments. Using that data to help other people is one thing, but commercializing it just seems like a real ethical line for a nonprofit to cross.”

Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow at Stanford University

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

I have this awful déjà-vu of that time facebook used their sentiment analysis to target depressed teens for special anti-depressant ads… [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/01/105987/is-facebook-targeting-ads-at-sad-teens/

We seriously need better privacy laws. Especially for any kind of medical records!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I hate this world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

don't hate the whole world. Just hate the current form of disaster capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I should but I feel like this will never end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The Roman Empire also thought it would be eternal 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

So did the Nazis, so do the USA, China and Russia today. The latter three found out that if you swap hard with soft power, eternity is much closer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

it probably won't. You only have one life, live it to your fullest, don't let bullshit like this make your day worse. You can fight the battles you can win and accept that there are battles you can't fight because you'd burn out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

If you believe in yourself, you can do anything. Including overthrowing the system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

The irony is that the company uses data from Crisis Text Line to make their customer support more "empathetic".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

I lost hope

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

And when you drill down to their so called value proposition, it is apparently to help human empathy scale. That word scale lies at the heart of almost all immoral business practices. It is a alter for "how do we spend as little input as possible to get as much as possible".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

seen this fictional short story via diaspora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8G3e3Cgl4

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

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