Saturday, July 06, 2013
"USPS Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program logs all U.S. mail"
I think it's safe to assume that "someone" is watching, tracking, and/or recording almost everything we do.
f you want to think otherwise, the word "naive" comes to mind...
f you want to think otherwise, the word "naive" comes to mind...
The UPI.com website includes this in a post referencing a New York Times article:
"The warrantless surveillance program for law enforcement is called Mail Isolation Control and Tracking. It's been in effect almost 11 years.
Last year alone Postal Service computers photographed the outside of about 160 billion letters and parcels, the Times said.
It is not known how long the government keeps the images, the newspaper said. The images are kept as part of a law enforcement surveillance technique known as 'mail covers.' Mail covers do not involve reading the mail itself, just the outside information, and are not considered by the Postal Service or Justice Department to be constitutional violations since the outside of envelopes and packages can readily be seen by anyone.
'It's a treasure trove of information' former FBI agent James Wedick told the Times."
