Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

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Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

alyaza [they/she] ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA

TechnologyEnglish • 2 years ago

Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook – The Markup

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

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Leperhero ( @Leperhero@lemmy.ml )
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Reason 10000 why facebook is a fucking cancer on society.
- AnyColorIWant ( @AnyColorIWant@lemmy.ml )
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  What’s crazy is that reason 10,000 is not even as high as the total number of reasons goes.
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    Its such a sad truth

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