Is Your Drugstore Selling Your Private Information to Big Pharma?

— By James Ridgeway | Tue Mar. 15, 2011 9:50 AM PDT

For years, the big drugstore chains have stoutly denied selling prescription information—patient names, contact information, doctors' names, and prescription details—to pharmaceutical companies for marketing use. Now, that charade has come to an end with two class action suits, accusing CVS and Walgreen of doing just that.