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How long before facebook gets sued over a suicide it failed to prevent?
by gydfi 10y ago
How long before facebook gets sued over a suicide it failed to prevent?
- caminante 10y agoHere's an IP law professor's take [0] in response to two suicides streamed on FB Live in January. tl;dr: "I don't believe current law requires FB to take any additional steps." [0] http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/can-facebook-be-sued-for-live-streaming-suicides/ http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/can-facebook-be-sued-for-liv...
- kolokolo 10y agoHow long before Facebook starts grading people and choosing whom to prevent from suicide and whom to push towards it?
- type0 10y agoThey could always sell that data to companies that are interested in not employing persons with mental health issues.
- lawless123 10y agoSomething like Cambridge Analytica could use it to do terrible things.
- nkrisc 10y agoI can think of quite a few awful things data like this could be very useful for. I feel just a little gross that I had these ideas.
- LoonyBalloony 10y agoThought-crimes coming soon to a facebook near you.
- dhimes 10y agoCame here to say this. They better be very careful going down this road. If they have a tool for this purpose, and somebody can claim it is debatable help, my guess is they can be in trouble. I built an old-style chatbot (this Ask Eliza) and put in a slight recognition pattern if certain key phrases are entered that takes the user down a certain decision-tree of question/responses. It's loosely based on CBT only as a choice of reasonable conversation/interaction. I would never claim it was a suicide prevention tool or a depression therapy tool, even if it was pretty good at it.