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Walgreens' Covid testing site exposes patient data

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Millions of people got Covid-19 tests through Walgreens. Their information wasn’t adequately protected. Recode’s Sara Morrison explains. Read her report here. Have a tip for one of our reporters? Email recodedaily@recode.net Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. This episode was made by: Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Taylor Maycan (@taylormaycan) Engineer: Melissa Pons (@MelissaPon1, Hemlock Creek Productions)  Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Walgreens. It's at the corner of happy and healthy.

0:36.0

But where is your privacy?

0:39.0

If you've been tested for COVID-19 at Walgreens,

0:43.0

your personal data has been left on the open web.

0:46.0

And advertisers might have access to it.

0:49.0

Your name, date of birth, gender identity, phone number, home address,

0:53.0

email, all of it is out there.

0:56.0

And in some cases, the results of your COVID test could be seen as well.

1:06.0

Sarah Morrison, you just broke this story for recode.

1:09.0

Can you tell us how many people might be impacted by the security laps at Walgreens?

1:13.0

So Walgreens has run millions of tests across more than 6000 testing sites across the country.

1:19.0

We know that this probably identified back in March.

1:24.0

But it looks like this platform was used as far back as July 2020, if not earlier.

1:30.0

So that's a lot of people in a long time.

1:32.0

And beyond the sheer number of people, like you said, it's millions who are potentially impacted.

1:37.0

What's the danger of having all this personal information out there?

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