Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care
2026-05-28 · 404 Media
Virtual therapy platform Headway is now requiring patients to submit to facial scanning just to keep seeing their therapists — because nothing says 'safe therapeutic environment' like mandatory biometric surveillance. Patients seeking mental health care are being forced to choose between handing over their face data or losing access to treatment, turning a healthcare relationship into a coercive data extraction scheme.