Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide

Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by arkades on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:56PM (#15793313)

Unequivocally not. Posting to Facebook is a public disclosure Health data: no one, including your own physician, is obligated to protect that which you opt to publicly disclose.

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by sjg007 on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:54PM (#15794224)

We are talking about a Facebook AI program reading your posts and deciding if you are suicidal or not. I'm not even sure how you would clinically validate that and if it would require FDA clearance, but if you are forming a mental health opinion on a stream of data and contacting the government about it that is probably something that may need to be protected.

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by arkades on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:33PM (#15794440)

Whether or not one thinks it ought to be protected, there is no contortion of existing law that does so.

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by sjg007 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:24AM (#15794658)

Well take a look at this: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/07/05/can-facebook-upd...

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by arkades on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:23AM (#15798019)

The medical school structured itnas a clinical trial with people volunteering to participate. Medical studies have different regulations than just reviewing public postings.

This is a reflection of the way they’ve chosen to go about things - no doubt in response to past kerfuffles - rather than an actual legal obligation on fb’s analysis of public materials.

HIPAA regs aren’t hidden from the public. Peruse at your leisure.

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