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Default May 04, 2023 at 01:11 PM
 
No company -- online or otherwise -- is allowed to sell such information to third-parties unless the user has given explicit consent for them to do so. Hence the fine and Betterhelp's agreement that, moving forward (this was back in March 2023), they would no longer do this.

Betterhelp no longer engages in these practices. There has been no evidence that their engagement in these deplorable practices resulted in any issues for an individual, since they were doing all of this for "advertising purposes" -- e.g., for them to make more money. It is horrible they were doing this, but am glad to see they have stopped. Talkspace has had similar issues, as have other online companies (including the big ones, like Facebook).

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