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$7.8 million. That's the fine.
2 million people. That's how many got sold.
BetterHelp is the most downloaded mental health app on earth. Millions chose it specifically for privacy. No insurance. No paper trail. No employer finding out. It felt safer than the traditional system.
It wasn't. It was the opposite.
You answered a questionnaire to match with a therapist. BetterHelp took your answers. Your email. Your IP. The single fact that you, specifically you, had sought mental health counseling.
Then they packaged it and sent it to Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo.
The purpose: "lookalike audiences." Find users who look like someone who sought therapy. Target them with ads. The therapy platform became an ad machine. The users were the inventory.
BetterHelp's own privacy policy said: "we will never use your information for advertising purposes."
March 2023, the FTC said: you lied.
Your traditional therapist is bound by HIPAA. Federal law. They cannot share your records without explicit consent. Built specifically because health data is uniquely sensitive.
BetterHelp is not bound by HIPAA.
Legally, they're a tech company. Licensed therapists operate inside their app, but the data architecture runs under tech company rules. No federal health privacy law. No mandatory protections. Just whatever their privacy policy says. And if they break it, it's an FTC matter. Civil. No one goes to prison.
Talkspace. Calm. Headspace. Woebot. All the same structure.
Why the fine didn't fix anything.
BetterHelp never admitted wrongdoing.
They paid $7.8 million. Kept the same business model. The existing data, already inside ad networks, was untouched by the agreement. A company with hundreds of millions in annual revenue paid less than a week of profit and continued operating as the most downloaded mental health app on earth.
The fine was the cost of doing business. The model was worth more than the penalty.
https://x.com/sharbel/status/2036463056318771462
2 million people. That's how many got sold.
BetterHelp is the most downloaded mental health app on earth. Millions chose it specifically for privacy. No insurance. No paper trail. No employer finding out. It felt safer than the traditional system.
It wasn't. It was the opposite.
You answered a questionnaire to match with a therapist. BetterHelp took your answers. Your email. Your IP. The single fact that you, specifically you, had sought mental health counseling.
Then they packaged it and sent it to Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo.
The purpose: "lookalike audiences." Find users who look like someone who sought therapy. Target them with ads. The therapy platform became an ad machine. The users were the inventory.
BetterHelp's own privacy policy said: "we will never use your information for advertising purposes."
March 2023, the FTC said: you lied.
Your traditional therapist is bound by HIPAA. Federal law. They cannot share your records without explicit consent. Built specifically because health data is uniquely sensitive.
BetterHelp is not bound by HIPAA.
Legally, they're a tech company. Licensed therapists operate inside their app, but the data architecture runs under tech company rules. No federal health privacy law. No mandatory protections. Just whatever their privacy policy says. And if they break it, it's an FTC matter. Civil. No one goes to prison.
Talkspace. Calm. Headspace. Woebot. All the same structure.
Why the fine didn't fix anything.
BetterHelp never admitted wrongdoing.
They paid $7.8 million. Kept the same business model. The existing data, already inside ad networks, was untouched by the agreement. A company with hundreds of millions in annual revenue paid less than a week of profit and continued operating as the most downloaded mental health app on earth.
The fine was the cost of doing business. The model was worth more than the penalty.
https://x.com/sharbel/status/2036463056318771462
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Forwarded from Church of Internal Combustion (Rockatansky๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐)
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Forwarded from SS Eddy Fitz of The Trve Hellenic Shitpost Empire
โTrans rights are human rightsโ
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Forwarded from Geopolitics Prime | Iran & Ukraine News Updates
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"You'll tell yourself it's for the greater good. Even if it feels a little off, you'll still feel like you're doing the right thing," he says.
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"I love your telegram channel texalian, you're doing a great job. Are you a patriot? Here's footage of that time you launched missiles on Bolsonarab's house. We want to protect you. Anyway here's $47 dollars worth of chips ahoy"
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JUST IN: ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ท๐บ India buys 60 million barrels of Russian oil for April, Bloomberg reports.
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Very generous of Russia to allow India to pay in Google play gift cards honestly
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JUST IN - Trump to appoint Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang to the Science and Technology Advisory Board.
Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/2xix4unkk0/
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Trump to name Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang to tech panel
Breaking news from around the world.
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In my head now I'm imagining that every time one of these 3 baby eating freaks is JUST about to do their baby eating ritual under the exact specific conditions that would produce the antichrist, Trump calls them and asks them about how to disconnect a Bluetooth speaker from his phone
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He's just tired of asking Kash Patel and Usha Vance for tech support
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Charli XCX if she was trying to save money be like "I drove 10 over near the bridge and didn't miss my turn, I threw your shit into the Walmart bags I keep under the sink and threw them down the stairs, I drove 10 over near the bridge"
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I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)
Icona Pop
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โBut my micro Latin mass is filled with based right wingers! Anyway this country needs more Roman Catholicsโ
https://x.com/mattforney/status/2034324429296001266?s=52
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The Porkchop Express
Imagine seeing a crow drinking White monster
My mom saw a crow dipping ripped up chunks of donut into a half drank cup of coffee in a Dunkin's parking lot
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