Irish suicide text line user data not fed to US for-profit company, 50808 confirms

The HSE-funded Irish arm of Crisis Text Line said it was not impacted by a recent scandal which saw anonymised data of US users to suicide hotline used in for-profit enterprise

Ian Power, chief executive of 50808, said that data collected by the crisis text service was subject to a ‘strict data transfer agreement’ and was not shared with a US for-profit enterprise. Picture: RollingNews.ie