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Anything you receive via post office. Sender/Receiver address is scanned. Post office uses OCR's for sortation and that information is captured.
by ChumpGPT 2y ago
Anything you receive via post office. Sender/Receiver address is scanned. Post office uses OCR's for sortation and that information is captured.
- tomrod 2y agoAh. The metadata. Inconsequential, then, to a degree.
- dredmorbius 2y ago"We Kill People Based on Metadata", ex-NSA chief General Michael Hayden: <https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-...> As Bruce Schneier has noted, metadata equals surveillance, as it's actually far more amenable to analysis and inference than whole-text or audio capture. Though that latter may have shifted significantly with the rise of LLM AI techniques. <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_survei.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv...>