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Costco criticized for sharing member purchase data with partners

Original: Costco shares members' purchase history, payment method, and visit frequency with its financial-services partners. A mem

Costco is facing criticism after claims that it shares members' purchase history, payment methods, and visit frequency with its financial-services partners. Privacy advocates argue that a Costco membership card effectively functions as a name-attached purchase record that can be cross-referenced with data brokers to build detailed consumer profiles, raising concerns about how loyalty programs trade discounts for personal data.

Why now: Growing public concern about how loyalty programs and retailers monetize member data is drawing attention to Costco's data-sharing practices.

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• Costco shares members' purchase history, payment method, and visit frequency with its financial-services partners. A membership card isn't a discount — it's a clean, name-attached purchase record that gets cross-referenced with data brokers to profile you. So what: loyalty… · indigoprivacy · 2

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