Exclusive: USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
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The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it took action to "remediate" the data sharing following a TechCrunch investigation.
    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      25·
      4 months ago

      It was a mistake, they had tracking code on their own website they didn’t understand.

      Not that it justifies it tbh, the whole “let’s collect analytics” is cancerous

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        9·
        4 months ago

        These mistakes always happen at our expense. Did not facebook get our incomes in similar way from turbotax.

        At some point, people start to notice…

        • sunzu@kbin.run
          2·
          4 months ago

          so no tax money goes to post office, is it funded from stamps and delivery fees?

          edit:

          Overview The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) generates nearly all of its funding—about $78.5 billion annually according to the USPS’s most recent financial report—by charging users of the mail for the costs of the services it provides. Congress, however, does provide an annual appropriation—about $50 million in FY2023—to compensate the USPS for revenue it forgoes in providing free mailing privileges to the blind and overseas voters.

          FY2024 U.S. Postal Service Appropriations