An App to Stop Suicide
Friday, November 07, 2014
A British charity Samaritans launched an app this week designed to help users identify suicidal thoughts in the tweets of people they follow, so they can reach out and help. But despite the best of intentions, the app raises serious questions about monitoring and interpreting the data of unwitting Twitter users. Bob talks with David Meyer, who wrote about the app for the technology website GigaOm.
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Maybe the folks at OTM have missed the point that no one forces you to post to twitter or even to make those posts public. How exactly is a machine watching your public posts (with good intentions) a violation of your privacy? Do you also think people taking pictures in the park are violating people's privacy? Good gods, all the real problems in the media and you have to dredge this deeply into the swamps for something to get your panties bunched up about?
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