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Surveillance by the US Postal Service

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/surveillance-by-the-us-postal-service.html

This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves:

To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the targeted blue post boxes which captured the suspect’s full face as they allegedly helped themselves to swathes of peoples’ mail.