US Postal Service Is Surveilling Social Media Services Because It Apparently Has Plenty Of Time And Money To Waste

US Postal Service Is Surveilling Social Media Services Because It Apparently Has Plenty Of Time And Money To Waste

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210423/18285846671/us-postal-service-is-surveilling-social-media-services-because-it-apparently-has-plenty-time-money-to-waste.shtml

The United States Postal Service is still in the spying business. The USPS has been scanning pretty much every piece of mail that runs through its system, creating a massive database of metadata that serves whatever purpose the USPS imagines it does. "National security" or whatever the fuck.

When not helping the DEA find cash and the occasional drug shipment, the USPS is also apparently keeping tabs on social media users. This includes social media services with smaller, but perhaps more concerning, user bases. The name of the game is still "national security," but it's unclear why the Postal Service -- which has a hard enough time divvying up its limited resources -- is engaged in this sort of surveillance.