An Post accused of selling economic and marital information of householders to private entities

The firm’s own website says GeoPeople categorises 'every address in Ireland into five broad neighbourhood clusters', these being ‘affluent’, ‘advantaged’, ‘striving’, ‘struggling’, and ‘deprived'. Picture: Denis Minihane

An Post has been accused of selling private information about householders, including economic and marital details, to private companies. 

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has complained to the Data Protection Commissioner about the sale by GeoDirectory, a subsidiary of An Post, of the data, which is filtered by individual address and Eircode.