Amazon’s push into delivering prescription drugs puts it in the crosshairs of everyone from state attorneys general to data thieves—who will all be scrutinizing how the e-commerce giant protects sensitive patient information.
Amazon’s new online pharmacy business will sell brand and generic prescription medications that consumers can buy through their insurance or through their Amazon Prime accounts for a discount. Collecting that sensitive patient data means Amazon will have to navigate its way through various overlapping federal and state privacy and data security laws. The company’s sizable footprint puts it squarely in several enforcement agencies’ sights.
At the federal level, ...