[adamwong246]

I hate to be the one who has to say the quiet part out loud but- what in the world are we doing to ourselves? Were these apps FOSS I might not be so alarmed but how do you think these companies are paying the bills? With good karma? No, YOUR DATA. And not just your GPS location or your favorite brand of ice cream, but your most vulnerable and intimate of thoughts. Now, shudder at the thought that not only can these apps leech your data, they can now poke back, manipulating the user to god know's what. And of course, your health insurance provider is now peering into your soul. They'll surely be happy to mandate that you can no longer attend "human" therapy.

[xctr94]

You’re sadly right, but many of these apps have a freemium model.

BetterHelp isn’t free at all, it’s actually fairly expensive; so one could argue they should not need to phone in your data to so many third-parties.

I pay my therapist for their services, assuming there’s a high degree of confidentiality in our relationship. These apps, even paid ones, behave like any other app in terms of data sharing.

And not to mention that some of this information might be covered by HIPAA?

[aio2]

Some people are stupid.