Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Privacy Lost

I've been using drugstore.com for a few years.  However, they sold out to Walgreens earlier this month.  So to order a new prescription I had to register on Walgreen's web site.  

Naturally, they had to prove that I was who I had typed into their form.  I was given a series of questions asking my last address, my last phone number and the model year of my car.  These questions popped up almost instantaneously after I had entered my name, address and telephone number.  I have never done business with Walgreen's, so, although I use the web daily, I must confess that I was taken aback by the speed with which they could display these questions.

I decided to forego the privilege of becoming a Walgreen's customer.

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