What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
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🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Between a third and half of American schoolchildren have a form of “mental health monitoring” software on their school devices, which scans for and flags certain keywords.
While intuitively appealing, is it worth the false positives, privacy issues, and compromised trust?
Guest: Ellen Barry, mental health reporter for the New York Times.
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| 1:02.4 | By 2020, 16-year-old Maddie Cholka had been struggling for a while with her mental health. She and her family, who lived in Neosha, Missouri, had had |
| 1:12.5 | difficult conversations about her suicidal ideation and how to keep her safe. And one night, Angel, |
| 1:20.1 | the mom, was woken up by police flashlights through her window, she told me, and she went to the door and there were two |
| 1:29.7 | police officers. |
| 1:31.3 | That's Ellen Barry, who writes about mental health for the New York Times. |
| 1:35.1 | And the officer said, does someone named Maddie Cholka live here? |
| 1:40.3 | And Angel was terrified because she, her first thought was that Maddie had run away. |
| 1:47.0 | But she had no idea sort of where this was coming from. And so she went to Maddie's room and the police came with her. And it turned out that what had happened was that Maddie was typing on her Chromebook, the Chromebook that she got |
| 2:02.2 | from the Neo-Show Public Schools, and she had sent a message to one of her friends, a text |
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