I can confidently diagnose #betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

#therapy #psychology #privacy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #telehealth #medicine #HIPAA #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #facebook #meta

I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.

Tone-deaf.

#apple #iPad #advertising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

Crush! | iPad Pro | Apple

Introducing the all-new iPad Pro. Outrageous performance by the first-ever M4 chip. With the breakthrough Ultra Retina XDR display. All in the thinnest Apple...

^YouTube

#TMobile USA sends mobile phone usage data to #PushSpring, which T-Mobile acquired in 2019.
T-Mobile assigns a unique ad ID to your cellphone and gathers app usage data.
To opt out and remove all data of you, there's an app - "magenta advertisements platform".

For me it's horrible that they do so without telling and that the app is somewhere hidden - no one would come up with that name!

#mobile #advertising

For #Android (I don't know whether they do it on iOS, too):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pushspring.preferences

Pay per privacy?

ORG has responded to the UK Information Commissioner's Office consultation on the 'consent or pay' model for online advertising.

Either subject yourself to profiling or pay to use a website without tracking – where's the freely given consent?

It's a violation of your right to privacy in the interests of predatory advertising and an attempt to coerce individuals.

Read now ⬇️

#adtech #privacy #onlineadverstising #dataprotection #advertising

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/org-response-to-the-ico-consent-or-pay-consultation/

ORG Response to the ICO “consent or pay” consultation

Open Rights Group welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Information Commissioner’s Office consultation on the “consent or pay” model, which is or could be relied upon for processing personal data on the basis of consent.

^{Open Rights Group}