Separately, it has been reported in the last several years that the U.S. Postal System has implemented imaging every single piece of mail it moves. They have a

Separately, it has been reported in the last several years that the U.S. Postal System has implemented imaging every single piece of mail it moves. They have already OCR-ed addresses from mail, for years. If they are now retaining the raw images, does this mean that they've inadvertently collected and are holding the HIV status of all the Aetna customers affected by this information leak? So far, it seems the USPS is not selling what it's collected. (Although I'm sure some of the "make a buck any way you can" crowd in DC and elsewhere would not be above enabling and pushing them to do so.) But, next year? And in case you thing this is far-fetched, many state departments of motor vehicles (DMV) already make their drivers license photographs commercially available, IIRC.