Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'
by pimterry on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:42PM
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What? The data that you've visited a mental health support website plus your IP easily takes you into GDPR sensitive data territory, and the rules around this are super strict: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/.
You absolutely should not be handing that information about people to random marketing companies without consent, let alone with informing users. In France, Germany & the UK I would expect that this is a clear & major breach of GDPR and who knows what else.
If you read the report, there's also sites where you fill in a quiz about your mental health & depression, and they forward that data to services like qualifio.com ('The leading Interactive Marketing &Data Collection Platform').
That's definitely concerning. There's no way this is reasonable behaviour, and we shouldn't accept it as such.
You absolutely should not be handing that information about people to random marketing companies without consent, let alone with informing users. In France, Germany & the UK I would expect that this is a clear & major breach of GDPR and who knows what else.
If you read the report, there's also sites where you fill in a quiz about your mental health & depression, and they forward that data to services like qualifio.com ('The leading Interactive Marketing &Data Collection Platform').
That's definitely concerning. There's no way this is reasonable behaviour, and we shouldn't accept it as such.