Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook – The Markup
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The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I wonder what recourse the organizations could take? A lawsuit? Going to the media?

    it seems very unlikely, at face, that they’d have legal standing to sue here (for a variety of reasons but the biggest one is probably lack of a law being violated due to US privacy law being so poor) so probably bad PR at most to be honest