{"id":189,"date":"2024-06-19T20:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absolutelynothing.io\/?p=189"},"modified":"2024-06-19T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:38:49","slug":"betterhelp-violated-my-privacy-now-im-getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutelynothing.io\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"BetterHelp Violated My Privacy, Now I\u2019m Getting Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BetterHelp logo, taken from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Diane, J.I., and myself often talk about where we want this business to be. Regularly we land on the same things: transparency, accountability, and the ability to reclaim your digital footprint<\/em> from entities that aren\u2019t using it in a respectful way. It upsets me to know that there are companies out there who hoover up our data and then sell or distribute it to others without our consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we\u2019re going to talk about one of those culprits: BetterHelp<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m fairly open with those that I meet that see a therapist on a regular basis. This is increasingly becoming less taboo and for good reason. We regularly see professionals who help us with various organs, we have a different set of professionals who fix our houses and cars and then we also have professionals who help manage our finances. Why wouldn\u2019t we see one about the most important organ we have, our brain? I love meeting with my therapist and it\u2019s helped me run regular maintenance on my neurons for several years now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine my disgust when I got this email letting me know that a company I trusted (and paid) to use my data ONLY for health purposes decided to go rogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A photo of the email I got in my inbox describing my payout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now when this first came to my inbox I got a little cautious, this feels<\/em> like it might be something a scammer would write to try and get my information. But there was a government website provided so I checked out ftc.gov\/betterhelp<\/a>. That page just had a bunch of logistics information about when I would be paid, but it was this page from the FTC<\/a> that told me why <\/em>I was getting paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n