Even USPS is spying on you

[hollohas]

Now we find out that even the Postal Service has a "covert" spy group monitoring social media to rat out right wingers...

https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

[clodhopper]

Arent they horning in on Homeland's territory? Sure adds another reason why they are loosin money regularly.

[Irving]

As long as packages get delivered on time, to the correct address, and the employees are on point and take personal responsibility for their duties and remain apolitical at work, I don't see what the problem is.

[hollohas]

Ha!

[whitewalrus]

Well they need to know which ballots to throw away.

:)


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[JohnnyEgo]

If they track me as well as they track my packages, I suspect I have nothing to fear.

[Irving]

If they track me as well as they track my packages, I suspect I have nothing to fear.

Mailed it!

[FoxtArt]

They are just jealous that people aren't collaborating about sedition with stamps anymore.

How the meeting probably went:
People are beginning to use this new fangled "intern-et" and we gotta stop'em!

Option A) Run an advertisement promotion about how skynet has a much harder time reading U.S. Mail. We would have to hire a fancy-smancy graphic artist.
Option B) Covertly run a sting operation to take out the internet. Charleston in accounting found an old A.O.L. CD in a drawer, so we have everything we need.

They went with option B.

[Great-Kazoo]

As long as packages get delivered on time, to the correct address, and the employees are on point and take personal responsibility for their duties and remain apolitical at work, I don't see what the problem is.

That may work for city folk. Once you're rural, with the local post office, the size of your garage, it's different .

Especially when a substitute driver is on. But the postal service, is all part of that homeland security, like utility companies.

With that See Something. Say Something, policy.

[exxonv]

Mailed it!

LOL!

[KevDen2005]

I get my mail delivered to the wrong address and my neighbors mail delivered to me on a regular basis. This is one organization I won't worry about when it comes to surveillance.

[arbol]

Without the USPS I would never meet my neighbors :)

[KevDen2005]

Without the USPS I would never meet my neighbors :)

Unfortunately the USPS has made be more social than I wanted to be

[Zundfolge]

USPS scans all your mail. You can even sign up for the service so that you get emails with pictures of the mail that will be arriving in your mailbox soon. Its called "Informed Delivery" https://informeddelivery.usps.com/

The idea that they don't record this information and use it for some other purpose (if nothing else selling this info to marketers) seems rather naive to me.

But yes, we have entered an age of massive surveillance (by government AND corporations) tied to some sort of "social credit score". And yes, we already have the Social Credit Scoring systems in place, they're sites like MyLife and Spokeo. Go search yourself on MyLife you'll see they actually rank you with a score.

[JTP80]

It's not really news that they do this. USPS has had a law enforcement division since its inception in the 1770's, and they've done internet surveillance since the original Patriot Act, at least officially. It's probably just surprising for some people that they are looking at social media and other sites about protests instead of what illicit items might be sent through the mail.

[Zundfolge]

I get my mail delivered to the wrong address and my neighbors mail delivered to me on a regular basis. This is one organization I won't worry about when it comes to surveillance.

That actually makes it worse, because now if your neighbor speaks out against Big Brother, YOU may get labeled with the thought-crime.

[00tec]

I guess I'm tied in with the dude down the road that regularly flies Dixie. Last substitute carrier we had misdelivered his mail to us 2 days in a row. Previously, the same person delivered the full box of mail for someone 5 miles out.

Our address is even vinyl printed inside the box to avoid confusion.

[KevDen2005]

But yes, we have entered an age of massive surveillance (by government AND corporations) tied to some sort of "social credit score". And yes, we already have the Social Credit Scoring systems in place, they're sites like MyLife and Spokeo. Go search yourself on MyLife you'll see they actually rank you with a score.

I recently attended an Open Source Intelligence Class. Very interesting stuff. I force myself to sign up for these types of trainings because I am so far behind in the technology realm. When kids report crimes from social media sites, I have no clue what they are talking about. But the class made me more paranoid than ever. We did learn that often these companies don't have correct information so checking multiple sources for verification is key. My Life was not one of the sources we went over in the course but I just checked it. My reputation score is by far not the best as it says there are court records. I have never been arrested and it's been probably 18 years since my last ticket. The associated family members were wrong, but my address and other identifying information was correct