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Dutch Drugstores Send Massive Amounts of Health Data to Facebook and Google

Summary by groene.nl
Anyone who buys a pregnancy test online runs the risk that American tech companies will learn about your desire to have children. These drugstores are using stealth to gather sensitive health information, which they then forward to Google or Meta. In doing so, they violate privacy laws.
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Anyone who buys a pregnancy test online runs the risk that American tech companies will learn about your desire to have children. These drugstores are using stealth to gather sensitive health information, which they then forward to Google or Meta. In doing so, they violate privacy laws.

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When a consumer adds a pregnancy test to their online shopping cart, Dutch drugstore webshops send the information to tech companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok.

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Investico broke the news in on Sunday, February 22, 2026.
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