Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
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#2Just a heads up, if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history. Full name, social everything - it was common for employees to look up the info of celebrities / other employees for fun.
Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-mail-order-pharmacy-face...
Re: Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
#3Just a heads up, if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history. Full name, social everything - it was common for employees to look up the info of celebrities / other employees for fun. Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;) https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-mail-or…
I’m a fan of giving the belief of innocent until proven guilty. You have a firm who’s aligned to cvs making accusations. A firm who’s likely long term going to loose money if Amazon succeeds here.
From that article, “Surescripts did, however, inform CVS and Express Scripts ahead of time about its plans to go public with its decision, the spokesmen said.”
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#4Companies that big should not be allowed to operate. They will have too much personal data and incredible unfair competitive advantage on the market. It's when capitalism doesn't work and where it needs to have emergency stops. Amazon needs to be split into independent companies. Now that Amazon will also know your medical history, know what you are talking about at home, all your preferences, who you meet, what are your problems, probably they know even more that Google. This should be stopped. We shouldn't be trading freedom for a notion of convenience.
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#5Hah, I mean...what can go wrong here really? :D
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#6Hah, I mean...what can go wrong here really? :D
Such knowledge could tempt some hostile action - for example some disgruntled employee could pull a list of people with nut allergy and the same day send them a box of peanuts. With the delivery so quick, nobody could stop such attack.
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#7> Amazon claims Prime members will be able to save “up to 80 percent off generic and 40 percent off brand name medications when paying without insurance.
This was buried in the article, but is IMO a bigger deal. In the long run, this could really drive down drug prices.
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#8As a British citizen, this is so disturbing to me.
Re: Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
#9Just a heads up, if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history. Full name, social everything - it was common for employees to look up the info of celebrities / other employees for fun. Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;) https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-mail-or…
New account & misinformation?
> if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history
That's not what the article you linked says
> Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;)
That's not what the article you linked says
Re: Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
#10Just a heads up, if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history. Full name, social everything - it was common for employees to look up the info of celebrities / other employees for fun. Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;) https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-mail-or…
Far be it for me to dispute the knowledge of a random throwaway, but I'd be surprised if there Amazon didn't have access controls to prevent looking up customer prescription history.
I know the hoops I have to go through just to access customer resource metadata in AWS Support. There are multiple, auditable checks that force you to provide access justification to resources -- and the process is routinely modified to make it more onerous and restrictive.
If we have dual control mechanisms to access routine information about a customer's VPC, I'd be shocked if Amazon didn't have auditable controls on Amazon Pharmacy.