Austria’s Post Office rejects criticism over data sharing

The Austrian Post sees nothing wrong in such a practice, insisting that it is allowed to use such data under Austrian law.

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”.