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  • 3 - Social Media Platforms as Public Health Arbiters

  • from Part I - Platforms, Apps and Digital Health
  • Edited by Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, University of Copenhagen, Michael Lowery Wilson, University of Turku, Finland, Mark Fenwick, Kyushu University, Japan, Nikolaus Forgó, Universität Wien, Austria, Till Bärnighausen, Universität Heidelberg
  • Book:
    AI in eHealth
    Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022, pp 68-86

  • Summary

    The emergence of Facebook’s suicide prevention algorithm has prompted discussion around whether social media platforms have a role to play in public health surveillance. Concerns have been raised about an entity that is not a public interest health authority collecting and acting on the private health information of its users, particularly sensitive data like an individual’s mental health status. Mental illnesses are still heavily stigmatised, despite continued efforts to normalise these conditions in some regions of the world. Depending on a user’s geographic location, the ramifications of the suicide detection algorithms generating false positives for suicide risk could have severe consequences. The present chapter continues this discourse by examining the ethical implications of Facebook’s suicide prevention algorithm from the privacy, legal, and cultural perspectives.

AI in eHealth
  • Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare
  • Edited by Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Michael Lowery Wilson, Mark Fenwick, Nikolaus Forgó, Till Bärnighausen
  • Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022
  • The emergence of digital platforms and the new application economy are transforming healthcare and creating new opportunities and risks for all stakeholders in the medical ecosystem. Many of these developments rely heavily on data and AI algorithms to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor diseases and other health conditions. A broad range of medical, ethical and legal knowledge is now required to navigate this highly complex and fast-changing space. This collection brings together scholars from medicine and law, but also ethics, management, philosophy, and computer science, to examine current and future technological, policy and regulatory issues. In particular, the book addresses the challenge of integrating data protection and privacy concerns into the design of emerging healthcare products and services. With a number of comparative case studies, the book offers a high-level, global, and interdisciplinary perspective on the normative and policy dilemmas raised by the proliferation of information technologies in a healthcare context.