Tag: iCOP

Mail fraud? Biden’s postal inspectors tracked pro-gun activists

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The U.S. Postal Service monitored protesters across the country, snooping on Americans focused on issues involving guns and President Biden’s election, according to records obtained by The Washington Times.

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“We determined that certain proactive searches iCOP conducted using an open-source intelligence tool from February to April 2021 exceeded the Postal Inspection Service’s law enforcement authority,” the Postal Service watchdog said in a March audit. “Furthermore, we could not corroborate whether other work analysts completed from October 2018 through June 2021 was legally authorized.”

Mail fraud? Biden’s postal inspectors tracked pro-gun activists

H/T: John Crump News

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Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office’s covert internet operations program

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Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office’s covert internet operations program

Republicans were told social media surveillance of protests was prompted by the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in response to Floyd’s death. That video was not part of the briefing for Democrats.

Chief postal inspector tells lawmakers that social media monitoring began after George Floyd protests

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Chief postal inspector tells lawmakers that social media monitoring began after George Floyd protests

Yet now it’s Republicans leading the charge against the USPS, after it emerged that iCOP was monitoring right-wing social media accounts following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. It’s unclear if news that the program was also tracking protests related to Black Lives Matter will prompt Democratic lawmakers, who have so far been silent about the program, to join their GOP colleagues in asking for more answers.

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The Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts

The Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

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 Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts

H/T: Steve Lehto on YouTube.

They can’t deliver the mail, on time, but they can watch my cat videos!? /s