Running racism in America thread

While we're on drug stores, I had meant to link this last week.


Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
The revelation could shape the debate over Americans’ health privacy as states move to criminalize abortion and drugs related to reproductive health

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/12/pharmacy-records-police-privacy-abortion/

"The nation’s largest pharmacy chains have handed over Americans’ prescription records to police and government investigators without a warrant, a congressional investigation found, raising concerns about threats to medical privacy.

Though some of the chains require their lawyers to review law enforcement requests, three of the largest — CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid, with a combined 60,000 locations nationwide — said they allow pharmacy staff members to hand over customers’ medical records in the store.

The policy was revealed in a letter sent late Monday to Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.).

The members began investigating the practice after the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the constitutional right to abortion.

The revelation could shape the debate over Americans’ expectations of privacy as Texas and other states move to criminalize abortion and drugs related to reproductive health.

Pharmacies’ records hold some of the most intimate details of their customers’ personal lives, including years-old medical conditions and the prescriptions they take for mental health and birth control.

Because the chains often share records across all locations, a pharmacy in one state can access a person’s medical history from states with more-restrictive laws. Carly Zubrzycki, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut law school, wrote last year that this could link a person’s out-of-state medical care via a “digital trail” back to their home state."

 

Rite-Aid contributes to my ice cream addiction, fortunately not opioids.

 

This is why I steal my boner pills from my buddy's medicine cabinet!

 

uhhh...no one show my buddy this post...

 

This is simply sickening.

Hey GOP, this is exactly why the Framers put in constitutional protections for the individual against the State (see also 1984). State is not supposed to violate the individuals' rights against big government infringement.

That's also why there is a right to privacy, not to mention HIPPA. Shareholders, prepare for civil class-actions and penalties.

 

The crazy is dug in deep with these people. Digging a moat around the property?

FBI searches home after reported cross-burning as part of "criminal civil rights investigation" - CBS News


"South Carolina is one of two states without hate crime laws based on race, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, according to WBTW, but the criminal civil rights investigation being undertaken by the FBI is federal. The FBI is the primary federal agency responsible for such investigations.

According to an FBI news release, the agency is working with the U.S. Attorney's Office and local and state partners on the investigation"

 

Outing alert: spikechiquet is freqposter!

 

LOL
Notice I said "from my buddy's stash"

I just steal from Freq!

 

Byeeeeeee

 

YOU LOST!
Now go take several seats and whine about heritage that is most likely not yours or can't be documented as such.