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Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (www.proofnews.org)

submitted 3 days ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/privacy@programming.dev

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She confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 65 points 3 days ago

"as the company’s CEO recently told investors, has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,”"

If he is saying this, he is basically pointing out that he is ready to sell this data to the highest bidder under some guise of "we ensure that we respect our clients' privacies and identities will be kept anonymous but the fine print allows us to do this blah blah" bullshit. If that ever happens he and the owner of the company should be jailed no matter what contracts they had people sign.