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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great. weaponize the delivery of mail against the people. that’s our corrupt administrative state for you. ought to abolish the usps just for this alone.
Sadly, I believe that requires a constitutional amendment. I believe the postal service is a constitutional entity.
wow i was about to post this in two seconds.
The thing is people might say, post office, who cares? But the post office is then feeding this information to the other agencies in the US govt....
yup. you’re right, enumerated. it’s really was conceived as a wholesome and necessary task by the Founders. they can corrupt and use anything good for their evil purposes.
i hope we can at least find all out the details of how and why they are using the usps for spy craft against us. gope? are you there?
Article 1, Section 8 only requires post offices to be established, it says nothing about it being a jobs program. Private firms can do this work. Let them.
That I agree with. Just because it is constitutional doesnt mean that it should not be heavily investigated. But hey — lets put together a Jan 6th Commission and continue to let everyone in government spy on the private American citizen. I am as disgusted as you are.
The same post office that cries they do not have enough money. Quit spending on things that do not concern you post office.
no wonder they can’t deliver the mails, they’re too damned busy spying on us
Gee, I won’t be supportive of any additional budget needs of the Postal Service going forward, not that I ever was.
Seems their core mission is of no concern to them. My mail has been late, starting around the time of the 2020 election.
These are the folks who will handle all the vote-by-mail ballots in the next elections.
They are sorting and screening the senders and recipients of those ballots.
I completely agree — I was responding mostly to that it cannot be abolished, unless the constitution is changed. Limited — entirely different story!
Kind of makes you wonder what reports your mail-carrier fills out every day. And if they are wired for electronic eves-dropping.
Just throw that 4th Amendment in the trash!
Of all of the government agencies in need of complete dismantlement and shutdown, the FBI and the Post Office are the top two on the list...
“Our Government” and I say that jokingly is out of control. One thing the politicians are correct about is that we need a ‘Great Reset”, it’s just not what they have in mind.
Right on. Mission focus, guys. Y’all are JUST supposed to handle mail and packages, and sell stamps. Full stop.
>>These are the folks who will handle all the vote-by-mail ballots in the next elections.
>>They are sorting and screening the senders and recipients of those ballots.
Maxine Waters: Obama Campaign Database Has ‘Information About Everything on Every Individual’
By Penny Starr | June 10, 2013 | 12:48pm EDT
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/waters-obama-campaign-database-has-information-about-everything-every-individual
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) praised President Barack Obama for putting together a campaign database that “will have information about everything on every individual.”
“And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before,” Waters told “Washington Watch” host Roland, referring to Obama’s “Organizing for America,” which was changed from a campaign organization to a 501(c)(4) called Organizing for Action...
“The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” she added. “That’s going to be very, very powerful.”
Martin asked if Waters if she was referring to “Organizing for America.”
“That’s right, that’s right,” Waters said. “And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.”
Waters said the database would also serve future Democratic candidates seeking the presidency.
“He’s been very smart,” Waters said of Obama. “I mean it’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
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From the annual report for USPS.gov for 2019:
In Fiscal Year 2019, the iCOP team
produced a total of 209 Intelligence
Reports to the field in support of
investigations involving narcotics, mail
theft, revenue fraud, homicide, dangerous
mail, and more. In all, analysts identified
nine (9) previously unknown individuals,
and their reports resulted in the arrest of
10 individuals.
The iCOP team also completed 74
cryptocurrency analysis products resulting
in the seizure of over $300,000 ion cryptocurrency.
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