Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google
The mental health startup says it exposed patient names, birth dates, insurance information, and their responses to mental health self-evaluations.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/11/23635518/cerebral-patient-data-meta-tiktok-google-pixel
I hate this. So wrong 😔
@Minholkin outrageous thing to happen
I think mental health care is sacred and folks looking to those sources are doing so bc of need…such a violation 😔
@Minholkin exactly
services like that shouldn't be using trackers of any kind
@Minholkin I don't if you'll remember but a few years back I was taking part in a drug survey thingy they said it was all private and anonymous BUT I found they had a Facebook button on the actual survey pages and notified the top guy and he was shocked that the button being there meant Facebook could track folk taking part
sometimes these services don't realise there are trackers I don't which is worse knowing or not
I remember but I didn’t recall the FB button portion of the story ☹️
Most folks in that field aren’t really tech savvy, it seems
@ecksmc It'd be real nice if we could have some solid data privacy laws in this awesome country of ours...We could start with the Euro model...which they already have.
@ecksmc that's pretty shocking
Horrible lack of ethics. Horrible. “The Horror.”
Violent murder of tenderest trust.
Mental health “start up?” Is this some sort of psychosocial joke?
Psychotherapy requires an amount of intimate trust that cannot be quantified.
This tech dung defeats that purpose of sacred healing conversation from the get-go.
But, hey, if all these Silicon Valley power houses ask, who can refuse? Just like, who could refuse to help Silicon Valley Bank out? Who?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cerebral-mental-health/id1537193671
Start feeling like “you” again, with help from Silicon Valley…
@ecksmc OMG. Good job Cerebral. The leadership should be fired, fined & prosecuted.
@ecksmc 🤔 'oversight'?
Not buying that...
@ecksmc
Isn’t that a HIPA violation? I hope they get sued into oblivion.
@ecksmc
Why hack when they'll just give you the shit?