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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by adenylyl on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:02PM (#41000557)
The US government does run its own self-hosted analytics platform (https://analytics.usa.gov), which the USPS does in fact use. Which makes it all the more questionable that they were additionally using third-party analytics.
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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by mh- on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:26AM (#41002001)
Offtopic, I chuckled that the top* city visitors come from is Ashburn.

That's definitely just a GeoIP database picking up AWS traffic.

* (in the last 30 minutes, as of now)

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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by nighthawk454 on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:15AM (#41003979)
> The data come from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. federal government agencies known as the Digital Analytics Program.

Well…

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