Some leading drug store chains turn over customers’ private health care information without a warrant.

The American legal system has a message for women concerned about their abortion rights: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that your pharmacist is your friend.

Thanks to a gaping loophole in federal health care regulations, some of our leading drug store chains turn over customers’ most sensitive private health care information to law enforcement agencies, even without a warrant.

That’s the finding of a subcommittee headed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., which learned that all eight of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains have routinely turned over prescription records of thousands of Americans to law enforcement agencies or other government entities secretly without a warrant.

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        Translation: This is a fast way to make supporters of police angry.

        Speedrun1 pissing off bootlickers any%2

        Terms used to define a challenge in a game where you attempt to reach the end as soon as possible1 without completing optional objectives (or sometimes main plot segments that can be skipped by abusing bugs)2.

        Speedrun pissing off bootlickers any%

        Pissing off: To anger or upset.

        Bootlicker: In context, this refers to supporters of police but may be used to describe supporters of other authorities.