The Postal Service is covertly monitoring Americans' social media posts

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  1. hawki

    hawki Registered Member

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    "The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts

    The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests...

    The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as 'inflammatory' postings and then sharing that information across government agencies...

    When contacted by Yahoo News, civil liberties experts expressed alarm at the post office’s surveillance program."

    https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-s...9.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
     
  2. xxJackxx

    xxJackxx Registered Member

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    There's a what and why do we have this? :confused:
     
  3. IvoShoen

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    EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service for Running Social Media Spying Operation
    July 28, 2021
    https://www.technadu.com/eff-sues-us-postal-service-running-social-media-spying-operation/292064/
    EFF: EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program
     
  5. EASTER

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    Good. Maybe I can finally get a discount on Express and One Day Delivery soon.
     
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