Google, in partnership with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness, has recently announced a feature to help diagnose people with depression by presenting them with the PHQ-9 questionnaire if they search for depression. In what is roughly a follow-up to a previous piece about Instagram and diagnosing mental illness, I consider whether or not tech giants like Google should be dealing with this kind of sensitive data, or whether or not they are in some ways part of the problem.
Googling Depression: the Risks of the Search Engine’s Attempt at Diagnosing Mental Illness
08 Friday Sep 2017
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