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Consumer Watchdog today called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to "suspend the suicide prevention program until it is fully protective of the rights of all individuals and contains safeguards against abuse," following a misfire in the program in Northern California.
A San Mateo man was imprisoned in a mental institution because of a post he made as a test exercising his First Amendment rights and a "welfare check-in" call that Facebook facilitated or made under Facebook's new suicide prevention program, Consumer Watchdog said.
"Facebook facilitated this man's loss of freedom for 70 hours and other innocent victims will be caught in Facebook's web if you do not improve the suicide prevention program's procedures," wrote Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court in the letter to Zuckerberg.