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Big tech is exploiting the mental health crisis to monetize your data

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  • Nosthoff, Anna-Verena
  • Maschewski, Felix
  • Couldry, Nick

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Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon are increasingly developing apps and services offering mental health treatment. The value of these products for users is dubious — but they do promise the companies lucrative new sources of highly personal data.

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  • Nosthoff, Anna-Verena & Maschewski, Felix & Couldry, Nick, 2023. "Big tech is exploiting the mental health crisis to monetize your data," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120934, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:120934
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    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • N0 - Economic History - - General

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