"Pharmacy chains like CVS Health, Walgreens, Rite Aid and others are playing an increasingly larger role in the nationwide inoculation effort...they have been able to scoop up data on new customers that could prove to be valuable... Many of the pharmacies require people to provide at least phone numbers or email addresses at the point of booking an appointment. Some others — including Walgreens, Sam’s Club and parent company Walmart, and Health Mart Pharmacy — require that people create online user accounts before they can search their websites for still-limited vaccine appointments... The stores’ online appointment portals usually don’t make explicit how the companies will use the information customers are providing... Some prominent consumer rights organizations, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, on Friday sent a letter urging a group of Democratic state attorneys general to investigate how major pharmacy retailers are using data from Covid vaccine sign-ups..." https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/03/pharmacy-covid-vaccine-customer-data-478977
