List #21 - Riding the Waves of Algorithmic Accountability in Online Mental Health and Crisis Support
From around the web…
📱 A webinar: Two Waves of Algorithmic Accountability for Mental Health Apps, Centre de Recherche en Droit, Téchnologie et Société / Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottowa, 12 December 2021
👁 Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies: How new surveillance technologies in education, policing, health care, and the workplace disproportionately harm disabled people, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Ridhi Shetty, Matt Scherer and Andrew Crawford, Centre for Democracy and Technology, May 14 2022
📳 Crisis Text Line ends data-sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff, John Hendel, Politico, 31 January 2022
📴 Mental Health Apps Like BetterHelp Are a Privacy Nightmare, Mozilla Says, Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo AU, May 3 2022
🎦 NHS trusts criticised over system that films mental health patients in their bedrooms, David Batty, The Guardian, 14 December 2021
💊 Cerebral CEO Kyle Robertson steps down amid DOJ investigation into prescribing practices, Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare, 19 May 2022
In scholarship…
🌀 Digital technologies pose a threat to human rights of older people, University of Essex, News, 22 June 2022
⚖ The Coercive Potential of Digital Mental Health, Isobel Butorac & Adrian Carter, (2021) 21(7) The American Journal of Bioethics
🧾 Impact of Electronic Health Records on Information Practices in Mental Health Contexts: Scoping Review, Timothy Charles Kariotis, Megan Prictor, Shanton Chang, Kathleen Gray, (2022) 24(5), J Med Internet Res
🤖 Heavenly Bodies: Why It Matters That Cyborgs Have Always Been About Disability, Mental Health, and Marginalization, Damien P Williams, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Department of Science & Technology Studies, SSRN, June 8 2019
Some things I’ve been working on…
☎ ‘Telehealth Use by Mental Health Professionals during COVID-19’, L Farrer, B Clough, M Bekker, A Calear, A Werner-Seidler, J Newby, V Knott, P Gooding, J Reynolds, L Brennan, PJ Batterham (2022) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
🏥 Artificial Intelligence in private spaces: Looking into the psychiatric panopticon an upcoming panel discussion at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE), University of Melbourne
📜 Position statement and call to action: Ethics and Law as Essential to e-Mental Health (Ver 1.0) e-Mental Health International Collaborative (I advised the Network on the development of this resource launched here with Pat Deegan, Mary O’Hagan, Richman Wee and Lene Søvold).