What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
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🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 29 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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| 0:00.0 | Is crypto perfect? |
| 0:01.9 | Nope. |
| 0:02.7 | But neither was email when it was invented in 1972. |
| 0:06.0 | And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day. |
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| 0:45.9 | Hey everyone, it's Lizzie here. |
| 0:48.4 | Just a heads up that this episode |
| 0:50.4 | discusses self-harm and suicide. |
| 0:52.8 | So please take care when listening. |
| 0:59.2 | By 2020, 16-year-old Maddie Cholka had been struggling for a while with her mental health. |
| 1:05.9 | She and her family, who lived in Neosha, Missouri, had had difficult conversations about her suicidal ideation and how to keep her safe. |
| 1:14.9 | And one night, Angel, the mom, was woken up by police flashlights through her window. |
| 1:22.4 | She told me, and she went to the door, and there were two police officers. |
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