[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: [Caspian-newsletter-l] Attention: Albertsons, Sav-On, Jewel-Osco, and Je...

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In a message dated 7/31/2007 5:30:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
kma at spychips.com writes:

Dear  CASPIAN members and associates:

Our friends at the Privacy Rights  Clearinghouse are looking for
customers of Albertsons, Sav-On, Jewel-Osco,  and Osco pharmacies who
received letters or calls asking them to renew  their prescription or
suggesting they try a new drug. This may have  occurred years ago, with
the communication often designed as a refill  reminder from their
friendly family pharmacist. 

These companies  were caught red-handed abusing customer medical data for
marketing  purposes. They are being sued for improperly using
prescription information  provided to their pharmacies to mail letters or
call customers in order to  sell more drugs. 

If you received such a communication, please contact  Beth Givens,
founder of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at (619) 298-3396  or
http://www.privacyrights.org/about_us.htm

I have the highest  respect for Beth's work and her organization. Her
letter on this issue  appears below.

In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht,  Ed.D.

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Dr.  Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer  Privacy

Host of "Uncovering the Truth"
We the People Radio Network,  M-F 10AM-12PM EST
http://www.wtprn.com

Co-author of "SPYCHIPS: How  Major Corporations and Government 
Plan to Track Your Every Move with  RFID"
http://www.spychips.com/book/booksales.html

WEBSITES:
Human  Chipping: http://www.AntiChips.com
RFID in Products:  http://www.SpyChips.com
Shopper Cards: http://www.NoCards.org
Bio online  at:  http://www.spychips.com/media/katherine-albrecht.html
============================================================

--------  Forwarded Message --------
From: Beth Givens-Privacy Rights Clearinghouse  
Subject: Alert: Pharmacy Marketing Practices
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007  21:00:00 -0700

Pharmacies Are Profiting At Your Expense  
Your  Help Is Requested

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) has  been in the forefront 
in asserting that pharmacies -- and their marketing  partners, the 
big pharmaceutical companies -- act improperly when using  the 
medical information in customer prescriptions to mail letters or  
call customers in order to sell more drugs.  

In the case of  Albertsons, a supermarket powerhouse operating in 
33 states that owned the  Sav-On, Osco and Jewel-Osco pharmacies 
(until recently sold), it proceeds  with such programs without 
customer permission while converting personal  prescription 
information into a highly sophisticated, retrievable  database.  
It does not inform the customers doctor about what it is  doing. 

The database allows Albertsons to personally identify you by  name, 
telephone number, address and drugs prescribed.  This allows  
communications to be sent based on your medical condition as implied  
by the information in your prescription.  Albertsons developed a  
highly profitable business in this way, filling more than 100  million
prescriptions a year, based on your confidential medical  information
combined with your name and address.

PRC filed a lawsuit  to put an end to these practices. It alleges 
that Albertsons activities in  retrieving your confidential medical
information to sell more drugs by  sending personally addressed 
communications to your home, without your  consent, violate your 
privacy.

In fact, thousands of Albertsons  customers received letters or 
calls asking for the renewal of your  prescription or suggesting 
you try a new drug.  This may have  occurred years ago with the 
communication often designed as a refill  reminder from your 
friendly family pharmacist. 

If this happened to  you or someone in you family, please let 
us know. It could be very helpful  to the outcome of the lawsuit.

----------------- 
Privacy Rights  Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer information 
and advocacy  organization based in San Diego, CA.  To contact 
PRC, see:  http://www.privacyrights.org/about_us.htm
or call (619) 298-3396.

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CASPIAN:  Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing  supermarket loyalty cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since  1999

http://www.spychips.com/
http://www.nocards.org/

You're  welcome to duplicate and distribute this message to others who
may find it  of interest.


 



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