This is sadly tolerated because the US doesn't have a single #privacy and #transparency law in the books (at least in the federal level). Plus #HIPPA is toothless in these cases since companies and law enforcement find loopholes to get around HIPPA.
@themarkup
Yet another disturbing example of how #SurveillanceCapitalism ties directly into #Fascism. If the stores are collecting your #HIPPA info for Vaccine appointments or other health equipment and sending that data directly to #Facebook, the cops can and will subpoena that data.
Rite Aid, Sam's Club, and Costco are all actively trying to get you killed/jailed for searching for medications. #ACAB
@arstechnica from what I understand there are still many medical applications (mostly hardware ) that still use #WindowsXP because getting a medical device recertified for #HIPPA compliance is way too expensive to waste on something like OS upgrades.
Of course when legal liability is the overriding concern, using a cracked #WindowsXPActivation algorithm is probably not an option 🙅