Friday, July 19, 2024

USPS Shared Customer Postal Addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

The postal service took action to remediate' the issue following a TechCrunch investigation

Posted by LampLighter at 12:32 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

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... The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal addresses of its online customers with advertising and tech giants Meta, LinkedIn and Snap, TechCrunch has found.

On Wednesday, the USPS said it addressed the issue and stopped the practice, claiming that it was "unaware" of it.

TechCrunch found USPS was sharing customers' information by way of hidden data-collecting code (also known as tracking pixels) used across its website. Tech and advertising companies create this kind of code to collect information about the user " such as which pages they visit " every time a webpage containing the code loads in the customer's browser.

In the case of USPS, some of that collected data included the postal addresses of logged-in USPS Informed Delivery customers, who use the service to see photos of their incoming mail before it arrives.

It's not clear how many individuals had their information collected or for how long. Informed Delivery had more than 62 million users as of March 2024. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-19 12:08 AM

@#1 ... tracking pixels ...

An evil of the Internet.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-19 12:09 AM

And #45 appointee Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster-General, making money hand over fist:

"Thanks to the USPS board of governors, the former North Carolina logistics executive had a compensation package totaling $480,985 for the fiscal year ending 30 Sep. A performance bonus approved by the board pushed DeJoy over the $400,000 salary of President Joe Biden. Plus DeJoy's base salary of $305,681 is "the highest ever paid for the top job at USPS," according to the Center for Public Integrity."

Republicans just know how to make money off the American people as if we're their food.

Source:

www.linns.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-19 12:43 AM

Well. what did you expect? DeJoy can't palm any "extra gratuity" anymore (court order) from Republicans to dismantle sorting machines to slow down delivery of mail-in ballots.

Did anybody really expect the little bandit to go straight?

#4 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-07-19 05:42 PM

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