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

They also promise to help you, then send a squad of goons to your house to kidnap you and confine you indefinitely in a mental institution (read: torture chamber).

Suicide prevention organizations have been inhumanly cruel for many years, so there’s nothing surprising about their cooperation with Facebook.

@Shinhoshi@infosec.pub
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Does that include the line behind the US’ new 988 number?

@ThatBikeGuy@lemmy.ca
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removed by mod

@dom@lemmy.ca
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Please don’t bring conspiracy theory garbage here.

interolivary
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then you will realize the pandemic was just a test run

The pandemic isn’t a test anything. It’s a pandemic, they happen.

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This isn’t the place to peddle conspiracy theories. Removed.

🇺🇦 seirim
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Dude what the f, the pandemic was real as heck.

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