Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

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Out of 33 of these crisis center websites they looked at:

In follow-up tests, four organizations appeared to have completely removed the code. The majority of the centers we contacted did not respond to requests for comment.

Ignorance may have been an excuse prior to this investigation, but it's not an excuse now.

Sure it is; an investigation doesn't really mean anything to them, they can just go on as they have before. Not sure if there'll be any legal repercussions?

All right. Well, let me rephrase: it's not a meaningful excuse which we should buy as justification for gross undermining of our privacy and our trust in organizations which allegedly exist to help us when we are in crisis.