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"...we could not corroborate whether other work analysts completed from October 2018 through June 2021 was legally authorized.” ...Postal Inspector General.

Days after its sweeping covert internet surveillance operation was exposed through media reports, the United States Postal Inspection ...

A D.C. federal judge on Friday dismissed a suit challenging the U.S. Postal Service's use of facial recognition and other technologies to collect personal data, chiding a privacy watchdog and its counsel for filing claims too similar to cases previously ruled on.

Print this article House Oversight Committee leaders on Tuesday asked the independent inspector of the postal service to examine what they called violations of Americans’ First Amendment rights through a covert surveillance program. In a letter written by Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, Democrat of New York, and ranking member James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, the leaders expressed concern to Tammy L. Whitcomb, the U.S. Postal Service inspector general, about reports the U...

“We got a good glimpse of abuse of power when Lois Lerner was running the IRS, but this kind of seems like that,” said Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican. Former IRS unit director Lois G. Lerner targeted conservative and tea party groups during the Obama administration and was held in contempt of Congress after not testifying at a congressional hearing. The Justice Department later decided not to bring a criminal case against her. Much was left unclear after the closed-door briefing, inclu...

The lawmakers from the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and the Judiciary added, “The United States is not lacking in its availability of intelligence agencies, and it should be left to those professionals to engage in this sort of behavior, if it is even necessary at all.” Earlier this week, a bulletin from iCOP published by Yahoo! News showed iCOP was monitoring planned protest activity in March 2021, including via information distributed through the social media platforms Parler,...