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Mental health websites in Europe found sharing user data for ads

Posted on September 4, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Natasha Lomas reports:

Research by a privacy rights advocacy group has found popular mental health websites in the EU are sharing users’ sensitive personal data with advertisers.

Europeans going online to seek support with mental health issues are having sensitive health data tracked and passed to third parties, according to Privacy International’s findings — including depression websites passing answers and results of mental health check tests direct to third parties for ad targeting purposes.

Read more on TechCrunch.

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