Facebook promises to keep info safe on data mining to prevent suicides?

They say "all are volunteers" but what about friends they are communicating with? Top that off with if researchers discover someone suicidal, they won't do anything to save a life. This is really troubling all the way around.

Facebook Can Predict Suicide?
NBC News
By Barbara E. Hernandez
Friday, Jul 5, 2013

Researchers are mining data on Facebook to find out if its updates can help predict suicide.

The scientists, from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth University, will be storing mobile data including user location, text messages and social network profiles in an onsite database. All information will be "safeguarded" and kept private, according to the Naked Security blog from Sophos. It's dubbed the Durkheim Project after sociologist Emile Durkheim, who wrote about suicide in the 19th century.

The volunteer subjects are all military veterans, known for an already high suicide rate, Arts Technica reported.

The project team is trying to predict suicidality, such as thoughts of suicide or behaviors, seems to indicate suicide with 65 percent of accuracy.

The veterans will be using iPhone and Android apps on their devices that will analyze their content for any suicide correlations. However, the researchers aren't allowed to intervene if there is suicide or self-harm. Only the database and veterans will see the information as a way to build trust, researchers said. The database will also be looking at social media to look for concussions, post-traumatic stress and other stressors.
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