Canada Post needs to invade your privacy to survive

The official, CAN Gov statement:

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/20...

Honestly, mixed feelings. On one hand big supporter of more privacy. The other is that this data is being collected by the companies I'm buying stuff from, anyway, and that this save the taxpayer a shit-ton of money.

On balance, am against it, but ~$800M CAD is hard to say no to. Who is going to pay for that?

Also surprised that Purolater is somehow profitable.

Canada post scans address information from letters and sells it to marketers. Canadas privacy commissioner ordered them to stop, but they make $800M per year on it so they are challenging it.