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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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Posted By: OhioNick, 5/19/2021 4:22:58 AM

Yahoo News Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office's covert internet operations program Jana Winter Jana Winter·Contributor Tue, May 18, 2021, 5:42 PM·8 min read The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies. Yet the program is much broader in scope than previously known and includes analysts who assume fake identities online, use sophisticated intelligence tools and employ facial recognition software, according to interviews and documents reviewed by Yahoo News.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds 5/19/2021 6:05:55 AM (No. 790159)
So the Federal Government, who has laws in place to keep the CIA from spying on its Citizens, has instead asked the USPS to do the spying for them, and share the info? This doesn't bode well for We The People...
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Reply 2 - Posted by: F15 Gork 5/19/2021 6:19:35 AM (No. 790167)
What ever happened to Rain, Sleet and Snow?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: web 5/19/2021 6:43:27 AM (No. 790180)
Too bad the USPS can't deliver a piece of mail on time or to the right address, but they are really good at spying on American citizens. Does Congress have any oversight on their operations? Does Congress have any oversight over any of these rogue agencies? Leftists seem to get away with anything they want to do, including burning down our cities, assaulting police and blocking highways, while we are persecuted for daring to protest a stolen election.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: HotRod 5/19/2021 7:46:39 AM (No. 790216)
Another straw on the camel's back. How many more before.......
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Reply 5 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 5/19/2021 8:25:41 AM (No. 790257)
I worked at the Postal IT Center in Eagan, MN for a year as a consultant. Believe me, you have NOTHING to worry about with postal employees running ANYTHING efficiently! Mission Impossible!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: spacer 5/19/2021 9:42:29 AM (No. 790340)
Trying to envision a Norman Rockwell painting of a 2021 mailman. Probably a guy with a ponytail, antenna and tiny camera poking out of the mail bag with a microphone stuck on his bermuda shorts.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 5/19/2021 9:57:46 AM (No. 790362)
So that's where the site trolls come from, USPS.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Highvoltage 5/19/2021 10:04:05 AM (No. 790375)
Weren’t the USPS buying up large stocks of guns and ammunition a few years ago I presume to use against us citizens. All the while running a deficit every year. I say defund the post office.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 5/19/2021 10:38:16 AM (No. 790429)
As long as USPS has money for this nonsense there should be no postal rate increases.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623 5/20/2021 2:44:03 AM (No. 791168)
Maybe this is the only thing masks are good for-harder to read faces. BTW The package I mailed in Jan. still hasn't been delivered.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 5/21/2021 3:25:57 PM (No. 792825)
This explains why everyone in my little village has to keep trading mail back and forth constantly to make sure it gets to the right person. Also why a valentine sent to a friend's daughter arrived at its destination at the end of April...
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