Samaritans Pull Controversial App
The Well-Intentioned Samaritan
The Samaritans Radar App did not quite have the effect the suicide-preventing charity would have liked. Originally conceived as a way to help vulnerable people online, the app had the opposite effect. Many people took to Twitter to voice their concerns that the app would make them less likely to post online and less trusting of Samaritans charity as a whole. The app even sparked an online petition asking Twitter to shut it down.
Following feedback and advice, including some
concerns raised by the #mentalhealth
community, we have suspended #SamaritansRadar.
—
Samaritans (@samaritans) November
7, 2014
Does this mean the end of Samaritans Radar App? Samaritans have not pulled the idea completely, because the app really did have good intentions. Samaritans stress we still need to find a way to protect vulnerable people online and enable them to reach out to friends or get the help they need. This means that Samaritans Radar has gone back to the workshop, and another less intrusive version could be in the works.
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