LloydsPharmacy shared customers’ sensitive data for targeted advertising

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This is another somewhat off-topic post.

It is important that you know of this so you can decide if it matters to you. And this chain has been mentioned numerous times so clearly many members are customers.

It appears this applies to online customers only.

However, it is well outside the remit of this forum. Hence, as soon as I have posted, I shall close the post to replying.

LloydsPharmacy shared customers’ sensitive data for targeted advertising

Exclusive: Investigation finds company passed on information such as purchases of Viagra to TikTok and Facebook

LloydsPharmacy has been sharing customer data on sensitive purchases such as Viagra with TikTok and Facebook in order to feed them information for their targeted advertising systems, an investigation has found.

The high street company is one of hundreds of online chemists found to have been using tiny pieces of computer code that can share personal details with the tech giants – including full names and phone numbers.

Rest of article accessible here:

theguardian.com/business/20...

The article also mentions "another British online pharmacy, E-surgery."

Remember that you can make Subject Access Requests and put in complaints to the Information Commissioner.