Austrian Post Office to delete customers' political data

ronjor · Jan 10, 2019

January 10, 2019

Austria's postal service said Thursday it would delete data about their customers' assumed political allegiances after privacy campaigners likened the practice to the Facebook data-sharing scandal.
Privacy campaigners were up in arms when it emerged that Austrian Post also made educated guesses about the political affinities of its customers and sold that information to political parties.
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guest · Oct 30, 2019

Austrian Post Fined Over Customer Data Misuse
October 30, 2019
https://www.securityweek.com/austrian-post-fined-over-customer-data-misuse

In January, Austrian Post said it would delete a database of the likely political affinities of around 2.2 million customers after privacy campaigners likened the practice to the Facebook data-sharing scandal.

The Austrian Data Protection Authority decided on the 18-million-euro administrative penalty after finding that Austrian Post violated data protection regulations, the justice ministry said in a press release.
Austrian Post, which is publicly listed but still majority-owned by the government, will appeal the decision.
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