New: Data brokers are selling extremely sensitive info on Americans' mental health. One company advertised the names and home addresses of people with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or bipolar disorder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
Ten years ago, Congress was told of a data broker selling a list of "rape sufferers." No laws have reformed the practice since - and, in some ways, the health-data trade has gotten worse.
"They’re building inferences and scores and categorizations from patterns in your life, your actions, where you go, what you eat — and what are we supposed to do, not live?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
The great @alng has more on the new mental-health data-broker research here:
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/00000186-3d43-d45e-a18e-fd63faa40001
Here's the full research:
https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-americans-mental-health-data/
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