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Daily Dashboard | FedEx: Drug Indictment Is Result of Focus on Customer Privacy Related reading: A view from DC: The path to IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024

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A 15-count indictment against FedEx was handed down on Thursday alleging the company helped “illegal online pharmacies traffic the sale of prescription drugs,” but the company says the issue comes down to privacy. The indictment claims that since at least 2004, FedEx “knowingly shipped controlled substances and prescription drugs for illegal Internet pharmacies despite warnings from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration and Congress.” But FedEx says it will plead not guilty, arguing it is not a shipping company’s job to prevent the sale of illegal drugs. A spokesman said customer privacy is essential to the core of FedEx’s business and that privacy is now at risk.
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