“It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than .
"It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people.
Thu, May 27th 2021 10:44am
Tim Cushing
Late last month, it was discovered the United States Postal Service was operating a social media surveillance program. The why of this was never explained. Apparently, the USPS has time and money to blow, so it has something called an Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) which it uses to investigate crimes that definitely are not of a postal nature.
According to the two-page bulletin first reported on by Yahoo News, iCOP was trawling social media looking for threats. And the threats observed in the report shared with the DHS and its many, many (mostly useless) Fusion Centers was that the threats weren t credible.
The Democrat-led House Oversight Committee is demanding the U.S. Postal Service investigate its own law enforcement arm s controversial surveillance of some Americans social media activity.
The House Oversight Committee is asking for an investigation into the Postal Service’s surveillance of Americans’ social media posts about protests, following a series of reports by Yahoo News about the program. The bipartisan request for an investigation into the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s covert internet surveillance program, known as iCOP, was sent Monday by committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and ranking member James Comer, according.