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Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems, Inc. and merged with Central Blood Bank) is a blood bank company. In their privacy policy[1]
, they claim to not sell or share your data. However, their website has embedded trackers for Meta and Google, which can be verified by looking at Brave Shields within Brave Browser. This is especially an issue for Vitalant, since they deal with people's private medical information.
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Vitalant trackers indicated by Brave as of 4 June 2025
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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Vitalant category.
