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Take Your Health Data "Off The Market"

Did you know? Your prescription data -- including name, address, date of birth and drug regimen is FOR SALE. Just imagine the discrimination that occurs if your prescription data gets into the hands of your employer or bank.

Every day all 51,000 pharmacies in the U.S. download, transmit and sell personally identifiable information for every drug they disburse. Even if you pay cash. The biggest consolidator of this data is a company called IMS Health, who processes the data and re-sells it for thousands of dollars to researchers, Wall Street analyst, insurance companies and others even though you did not agree to have your data used in this way.

The main purchasers of this data are insurance companies and underwriters, pharmaceutical companies and other data miners. Arguably, the data can be bought and sold by anyone who wants to purchase it.

Don't remember agreeing to this? Well, you didn't. Take a few seconds to watch this video.

Americans are in the dark about this practice. No one has ever given informed consent for their personal information to be used in this way. No one has ever been given the right to opt out of this practice.

Will you help Patient Privacy Rights make your prescriptions private?

1). Sign the Campaign for Prescription Privacy petition to demand that pharmacy chains stop selling our health secrets.

2). Spread the word. Please forward the video to all your friends and family so they can protect their private data.

We rely heavily on prescription medications to heal us. Our drugs are as good as our diagnosis. Your prescription regimen should be a private matter between you, your doctor and your pharmacist.

For the petition and other information, please visit http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/.