This has been known for decades.
Posted on 05/19/2021 11:11:05 AM PDT by ransomnote
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.
Among the tools used by the analysts is Clearview AI, a facial recognition software that scrapes images off public websites, a practice that has raised the ire of privacy advocates. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service uses Clearview’s facial recognition database of over 3 billion images from arrest photos collected from across social media “to help identify unknown targets in an investigation or locate additional social media accounts for known individuals,” according to materials reviewed by Yahoo News.
Other tools employed by the Inspection Service include Zignal Labs’ software, which it uses to run keyword searches on social media event pages to identify potential threats from upcoming scheduled protests, according to Inspection Service documents. It also uses Nfusion, another software program, to create and maintain anonymous, untraceable email and social media accounts.
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And yet, when it comes to mail delivery, the one item of importance that doesn’t get delivered is a personal letter with checks in it. But I always get all the junk.
The post office is a constitutional entity, but the office ofpostal inspectors is not. They just need their mission creep reined in, that’s all.
Cut their budget in half, they obviously don’t have enough legitimate mail fraud if they are inventing new missions.
I think a 50% budget cut is a little thin given all that we have read. Spend $1.00 a year on the thing. Keep it in existence in name only, let the free market take care of the rest.
The constitution does not mandate a post office. It does authorize congress to create one. The feds could scrap or privatize it if they wanted to.
How is this legal?!?
Read it again. It’s not mandated. The clause only grants congress the power, it doesn’t mandate it at all.
This has been known for decades.
WTH does the post office have to do with social media posts?
Its a nice idea, but if really needed you can not do those things on your own. if not you deserve to be caught.
Remember we were told to learn code by some Dufus.
About the post office, I would expect no less from those in a corrupt government.
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.
And if you post anything about this online, your social media accounts will be scrubbed and you'll be fired and jailed -- public safety. /toosubtle
what from?
3 Days of the Condor.
Ping : USPS sources of AI and facial recognition.
Today I would think there is a good chance that every branch of the US government is being weaponized against those who oppose communism/socialism.
Three Days of the Condor...
Excellent movie.
What, that old dusty paper obamy tossed out a decade ago?
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