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It may be too late for you to ever see this, but: https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-health-data-1850107119 https://gizmodo.com/depress
by autoexec 3y ago
It may be too late for you to ever see this, but:
https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-health-data-1850107119 https://gizmodo.com/depression-anxiety-brokers-sell-mental-h...
The study:
https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-americans-mental-health-data/ https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sal...
https://www.healthyads.com/targeting/medical-conditions-targeting/bipolar-disorder-targeting/ https://www.healthyads.com/targeting/medical-conditions-targ...
https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/psychological-targeting-the-case-for/ https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/psychological-targeting-...
It's also worth pointing out that a company doesn't have to hold a meeting where they vote to deliberately target and exploit vulnerable members of the public, instead they just use an algorithm that constantly optimizes for making them money and which eventually figures out exploiting people is easy and effective.
Those companies generally know it's happening, and often do set out to make it happen just like they've always targeted ads at young children and teenagers whose brains aren't developed yet, but the algorithm gives them plausible deniability.
- farco12 3y agoNot too late! This is what I was looking for, thank you for sharing.