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Paywalled.
by new_guy 5y ago
Paywalled.
- fibers 5y agohttps://news.yahoo.com/suicide-hotline-data-echoes-silicon-093000040.html https://news.yahoo.com/suicide-hotline-data-echoes-silicon-0... "Crisis Text Line is not the only nonprofit support line that collects and shares data as part of its operations. For example, the Trevor Project, a 23-year-old group that provides suicide prevention services to young LGBTQ people, discloses that it passes along users' information to third parties like Meta and Google for targeting of online ads or other purposes, and the content of their conversations to partners for research." This is a pretty grim article, but it sort of puts into perspective on who stands to benefit from these policies (namely tech workers and the companies they work from, as well as the non profit managers)