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       2024-06-09T10:14:53Z
       
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       BetterHelp is a counseling service that advertises a lot on YouTube. I'm in the UK and hadn't heard of the issues before.  A Mastodon post alerted me to it's unethical behaviour, so I searched for a link. The service was called out by the  FTC  (USA) for sharing clients'  confidential data to various advertising platforms including Facebook (Meta).BetterHelp was ordered to pay $7.8m, used to refund clients from  2017-20.https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke#mentalHealth #DataProtection