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Mental health & prayer apps prey on users; Mozilla calls them “exceptionally creepy”

While one would hope apps you share your most intimate thoughts with would respect user privacy, Mozilla’s survey of 32 popular mental health and prayer apps found exactly the opposite. In fact, 28 earned a spot Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” guide. These apps track, share and capitalize on users’ most intimate thoughts, harvest vast amounts of data, have dismal security, and then sell mass quantities of data to Facebook and other 3rd-party platforms. In fact, according to one of the study’s co-authors, companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in these apps to find out who has depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts or other mental health issues.

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Treasure Data Introduces CDP Trade-Up Program

January 14, 2025

Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.

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