USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it took action to "remediate" the data sharing following a TechCrunch investigation.
Thanks, Louis DeJoy.
USPS sells this information for mail advertising. If you don't want to be included in that, you can opt out via USPS.
Fill out Form 1500 and drop it by a post office to be removed from ad lists. It's free.
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
This is about tracking pixels.
I wonder if this is where all those stupid USPS your package is waiting text scams came from?
A data breach is likely where they got your information from; whether it was this specific one is hard to say (there’s a new one practically every week).
Your postal address is displayed right there at the top of the page when you're signed in and looking at the "dashboard," so it's readily available bold as brass for anyone to scrape. The real question is, why was third party code even allowed to be served with that page? What possible benefit could it serve the user to have Meta and LinkedIn tracking pixels on their postal mail dashboard?
That was a rhetorical question. The answer is money, and how much of it those social media/tech companies were paying the Postal Service to allow them to do it -- end user be damned. The notion that the USPS was "unaware" of this reeks so bad that you could smell it from space.
i'd be more shocked if a government agency (outside the DOD) managed NOT to leak my data.
No need to qualify that statement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
