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FTC takes aim at online counseling service BetterHelp, saying it shared people's health questionnaire information for use in targeted ads:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-ban-betterhelp-revealing-consumers-data-including-sensitive-mental-health-information-facebook

The big problem here was that the company lied about it, because sharing mental health data for advertising purposes is totally legal in the U.S., as I wrote about last month:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/