Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Messenger

Re:Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Mess... by kolokolo on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:19AM (#13773521)

How long before Facebook starts grading people and choosing whom to prevent from suicide and whom to push towards it?

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Re:Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Mess... by type0 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:25AM (#13773549)

They could always sell that data to companies that are interested in not employing persons with mental health issues.

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Re:Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Mess... by lawless123 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:23AM (#13773804)

Something like Cambridge Analytica could use it to do terrible things.

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Re:Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Mess... by nkrisc on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:53AM (#13773965)

I can think of quite a few awful things data like this could be very useful for. I feel just a little gross that I had these ideas.

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Re:Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Mess... by LoonyBalloony on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:41AM (#13774801)

Thought-crimes coming soon to a facebook near you.

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