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Now, this is a situation to go postal about.
The response to this doesn’t require a deep dive. The post office has no business monitoring social media posts. None whatsoever. Not even close. The job of the post office is to deliver letters, not to do domestic intelligence.
Yet, according to Yahoo, “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.”
This is outrageous. This is unacceptable. This is a time when a cliche actually fits: This is Orwell’s Big Brother come to life. This is government tracking without probable cause
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, Facebook, Twitter, and the cloud-based messaging service Telegram.
Parler became popular with supporters of former President Donald Trump amid actions by more prominent social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to restrict content online.
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The U.S. Postal Service is running a covert operations program that monitors Americans social media posts | 21 April 2021 | 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, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. 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.
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The U.S. Postal Service is running a covert operations program that monitors Americans social media posts | 21 April 2021 | 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, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. 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.