VIENNA: Austria’s national post office on Jan 8 defended its policy of collecting and selling information about customers’ assumed political allegiances, as privacy campaigners drew comparisons to the Facebook data-sharing scandal.
The Austrian Post said in a statement that the gathering of marketing data was “not a new business area” for the group and had been “well-established practice for many years”.
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