[gydfi]

How long before facebook gets sued over a suicide it failed to prevent?

[caminante]

Here's an IP law professor's take [0] in response to two suicides streamed on FB Live in January.

tl;dr: "I don't believe current law requires FB to take any additional steps."

[0] http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/can-facebook-be-sued-for-liv...

[dhimes]

Came here to say this. They better be very careful going down this road. If they have a tool for this purpose, and somebody can claim it is debatable help, my guess is they can be in trouble.

I built an old-style chatbot (this Ask Eliza) and put in a slight recognition pattern if certain key phrases are entered that takes the user down a certain decision-tree of question/responses. It's loosely based on CBT only as a choice of reasonable conversation/interaction. I would never claim it was a suicide prevention tool or a depression therapy tool, even if it was pretty good at it.

[kolokolo]

How long before Facebook starts grading people and choosing whom to prevent from suicide and whom to push towards it?

[type0]

They could always sell that data to companies that are interested in not employing persons with mental health issues.

[lawless123]

Something like Cambridge Analytica could use it to do terrible things.

[nkrisc]

I can think of quite a few awful things data like this could be very useful for. I feel just a little gross that I had these ideas.

[LoonyBalloony]

Thought-crimes coming soon to a facebook near you.