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> Clickbait title: USPS did not share anything intentionally. They negligently allowed tracking pixels from certain companies on their Informed Delivery page.
by gwerbret 2y ago
> Clickbait title: USPS did not share anything intentionally. They negligently allowed tracking pixels from certain companies on their Informed Delivery page.
You needed to read through to the end of the article. TechCrunch did its own testing and confirmed that the mentioned sites were scraping data from the USPS, including but not limited to the postal addresses. The negligence that allowed USPS to leak such information in the name of analytics or whatever it is they were gaining from Facebook et al. is unconscionable, and USPS are very much responsible, just as they would be for a trivial hack with the same effect.
- 1000100_1000101 2y agoWhen a researcher notices they can show source, or tweak an id in a URL and see data they shouldn't, and report it, they're threatened with jail time. How come Meta can secretly scrape my web session, steal information, and that's not considered a massive violation of these same laws? These companies act like they're entitled to everything. Some CEOs and senior managers jailed for plotting these data theft tactics would be a welcome change... But it's never going to happen, and they know it.