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Costco Pharmacy Sends Sensitive Health Data to Third Parties (www.bankinfosecurity.com)

submitted 2 years ago by memfree@lemmy.ml to c/costco@lemmy.world

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The main allegation is that Costco lets Meta collect communications related to health care from its website, violating HIPAA and effectively acting as a wiretap of the customer.

The first lawsuit was news earlier in October, and the new one from the 25th appears to be similar. Links to first suit:

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[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

This makes the most sense to me. I'd bet that some code was applied to their whole site, instead of everything except the pharmacy.

Their website isn't exactly sophisticated, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a mistake. It still shouldn't have happened.