Algorithms, social media and mental health

Rónán Kennedy; Heike Schmidt-Felzmann

doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6161

Algorithms, social media and mental health

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Abstract

Algorithmic identification of mental health characteristics is feasible on the basis of easily available information on social media. Such information can be extracted by algorithmic methods from publicly available information. These possibilities raise significant ethical and legal concerns, especially with regard to issues of privacy, consent, transparency and harm and the protections of the DPD and GDPR.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Journal	Computers & Law
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6161
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2016

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Heike Felzmann, Rónán Kennedy

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