It has come to light that the US Postal Service (USPS) was sharing the postal addresses of online customers, including those logged into Informed Delivery. The information was sent to Meta, LinkedIn, and Snap.
News about various companies and apps sharing sensitive customer data in similar ways - including that related to health - have been cropping up regularly over the last years, resulting in fines and orders to pay out compensation, as well as forcing these entities to stop the practice.
fiHowever, USPS is the biggest of such companies where proof has emerged about the collection and sharing of personal data with third parties - apparently, against the rules of both USPS - and the tech and ad companies that received that data from this federal service.
TechCrunch said it discovered this by looking into network traffic using browser tools, and learning that customer addresses were taken from the Informed Delivery landing page and then "shipped" to the three tech firms.
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