December 16, 2004

Neither rain nor sleet nor privacy concerns...

Aaagh! I knew my infatuation with the self-serve kiosks at the post office had to have some sort of dark side to it:

Documents obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act show that new Postal Service self-service postage machines take portrait-style photographs of customers and retain them for 30 days on a Windows XP platform. Link

Bastards. This prompts another question: do ATMs retain our photos, too?

Posted by sarah at December 16, 2004 1:26 PM | TrackBack