On 12/23/15 9:47 AM, Mayayana wrote:


CVS now sells your personal medical info to drug companies
for marketing purposes, if you buy any drugs from CVS. Your
doctor can't legally do that, but there's no law about CVS
selling their business records. Privacy regulations, which were
never important before computers, simply haven't caught
up. And they may not, given the power of lobbyists. Selling
data and targetting ads is already a massive industry. If
you think of CVS and imagine how many similar cases there
may be, there's a good chance that companies like
LexisNexis know more about you than you do... far more.
Their memory is perfect.


Actually your doctor could sell every bit of medical they want to,
just like CVS. But just like CVS, they'd have to get your permission.
Unlike CVS, they don't have this frequent shopper card that nobody ever
reads the fine print.