Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by qop on Thursday June 28, 2018 @07:01PM (#17421163)

Clearly the parent commenter didn't intend to imply that the industry is not regulated. I think it was more of a tongue-in-cheek jab at Amazon.

I think it's just generally weird that a shipping and commerce company is taking interest in pharma to begin with. I think it SHOULD make users uncomfortable that a single company is potentially exposed to all these different vertices of user information. They know what you buy, soon they'll know what groceries people buy, what they read, what medicine they take which could in turn reveal metadata like sexual habits or genetic patterns.

It's weird.

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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by digitalzombie on Thursday June 28, 2018 @07:30PM (#17421320)

Is it weird?

I feel like it's more like Amazon just trying to monopolize everything. There are articles out there talking about getting Amazon-ed. Where Amazon would go in your industry and dominate you out the market. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamescahn/2018/04/24/dont-let-y...)

This is just a natural thing or the thing that Amazon does. Their modus operandi.

> what medicine they take which could in turn reveal metadata like sexual habits

They do recommendation system and I believe they sell sex toys so yeah... Alexia knows your kink already.

It's not weird but I think the better question is is this okay for one company to have so much power in so many area. Or at least I believe that's what you are trying to convey.

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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by qop on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:26AM (#17422415)

I guess I meant weird in the moral sense. It's certainly not unusual given their past behavior as a corp.

Sort of depressing, really.

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