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Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (www.proofnews.org)
submitted 4 days ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/privacy@programming.dev
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She confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer.

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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol, "replaced by"?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Wellness tech, including hardware applications and websites, are relatively new compared to the (technically regulated) for-profit medicine industry.