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

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They also promise to help you, then send a squad of goons to your house to kidnap you and confine you indefinitely in a mental institution (read: torture chamber).

Suicide prevention organizations have been inhumanly cruel for many years, so there's nothing surprising about their cooperation with Facebook.

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