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>I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD imagine this: employers know that having these conditio

>I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD imagine this: employers know that having these conditions (some of which are permanent) makes people less effective at working, and so they want to know who has adhd, who has x, y, z. facebook sells them the data. boom, now these people can't be employed by that company. i just can't help but laugh because there's a good chance this is already happening.

MBCook 9y ago
Of course Facebook couldn’t sell that data. It’s medical information and thus illegal (IANAL). But no matter. I’m sure there’s no rule against the company taking out ads advertising open positions to people who don’t have those issues. Tada. Nothing illegal happened, but discrimination still did.