#News: Dozens of websites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline—988—are sending visitor data to Facebook.
By @jonkeegan and Colin Lecher, copublished with @STAT: #MentalHealth #Privacy #Data https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook
My takeaways from this:
1) Meta gonna Meta. That company is irreformable.
2) This sort of privacy pollution needs to be outlawed — not regulated — outlawed entirely, with extinction-level penalties for violations.
Having to defend ourselves against this type of intrusive surveillance instead of making it flat out illegal is like allowing them to dump toxic waste into the drinking water supply and then telling us we need to buy water filters.
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