Creepy or Cool? USPS Informed Delivery....

[greg nr]

Ok, so my wife shows me this new service/app she got from the post office. Apparently they scan EVERY piece of mail delivered to your house or mailbox, and you can view those images to see what's been delivered.

Ok, so I've been waiting for a check and I'm out of town. That's cool.

But the friggin guvvies are scanning EVERY piece of mail, including sender names/addresses delivered to every residence and business. Why the frig would they be doing that? It isn't cheap. So why is it needed?

It certainly isn't so I can be lazy and not walk out to the mailbox.........

 

[cannabineer]

At the risk of being flippant: "because they can".

Place intelligence-gathering tech into a government agency's hands, and the only way they won't use it is if the legislators limit them.

 

[greg nr]

Still had to cost a money losing agency hundreds of millions of dollars, if not in the billions all told. High speed scanning tech, let alone the compute and storage behind it, ain't cheap.

And yet they cry they can't make money because personnel costs are too high, especially health care and pensions.

 

[dannyboy602]

U mean to tell me all the deliveries I got from BlackDildo.com are on a registry somewhere? Oy vey!

 

[cannabineer]

Still had to cost a money losing agency hundreds of millions of dollars, if not in the billions all told. High speed scanning tech, let alone the compute and storage behind it, ain't cheap.

And yet they cry they can't make money because personnel costs are too high, especially health care and pensions.

Which illustrates their priorities. One can always wave the banner of National Security to get an intel expenditure like that funded.

I suspect but don't know ... that the infrastructure is already in place, as they record and store every last electronic communication. Somewhere in a petabyte warehouse or two (wonder if we're in the exabyte domain yet) there is a copy of every e-mail since perhaps 2005. So piggybacking scanned mail data is a small added expense.

And greed for information will usually trump social outlay. That is a government truism.

 

[cannabineer]

U mean to tell me all the deliveries I got from BlackDildo.com are on a registry somewhere? Oy vey!

That's hard info. You should have purchased overseas from Assitude Choadbank

 

[WeedFreak78]

Still had to cost a money losing agency hundreds of millions of dollars, if not in the billions all told. High speed scanning tech, let alone the compute and storage behind it, ain't cheap.

And yet they cry they can't make money because personnel costs are too high, especially health care and pensions.

First off...FUCK YOU FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Stop recording everything we do.
The USPS losing money is just political BS so they can privatize it, rather than make it work efficiently.

 

[BarnBuster]

MICT started after the anthrax letters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tracking

also this to consider when checking the USPS database to find out "Where is my package"?

"According to the website Ars, a federal drug investigation reveals how the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) law enforcement unit can use IP logs on the postal tracking website to investigate crimes.

“The USPS database reflected that an individual using a computer or other device with IP address 75.67.6.214 accessed the USPS Track ‘n Confirm website to follow the progress of both the Florida Parcel and Bates Parcel #1,”Dowd wrote.

“What’s most bizarre about this, is the case was tipped off by an algorithm, a system that mines Track N’ Confirm user-data in order to detect suspicious activity, has triggered the investigation,” Ghappour told Ars in an interview."

 

[ttystikk]

Which illustrates their priorities. One can always wave the banner of National Security to get an intel expenditure like that funded.

I suspect but don't know ... that the infrastructure is already in place, as they record and store every last electronic communication. Somewhere in a petabyte warehouse or two (wonder if we're in the exabyte domain yet) there is a copy of every e-mail since perhaps 2005. So piggybacking scanned mail data is a small added expense.

And greed for information will usually trump social outlay. That is a government truism.

Yes they absolutely do; Echelon and other NSA programs. To get around American privacy laws, they actually route everything offshore and THEN record it.

We live in the surveillance state George Orwell and others warned us about.

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/39024...safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century

 

[tangerinegreen555]

Yes they absolutely do; Echelon and other NSA programs. To get around American privacy laws, they actually route everything offshore and THEN record it.

We live in the surveillance state George Orwell and others warned us about.

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/39024...safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century

I just heard the Trump administration is trying to get the name of every registered voter in the US, along with address, phone number, SS number and anything else they have where you're registered to vote, to keep on a computer file.

Pretty fucking nosey if you ask me.

Maybe Russia asked for them. Lol.

 

[jacksmuff]

I just heard the Trump administration is trying to get the name of every registered voter in the US, along with address, phone number, SS number and anything else they have where you're registered to vote, to keep on a computer file.

Pretty fucking nosey if you ask me.

Maybe Russia asked for them. Lol.

watch more cnn

 

[tangerinegreen555]

watch more cnn

That wasn't on CNN, comrade.

 

[jacksmuff]

That wasn't on CNN, comrade.

 

[greg nr]

I just heard the Trump administration is trying to get the name of every registered voter in the US, along with address, phone number, SS number and anything else they have where you're registered to vote, to keep on a computer file.

Pretty fucking nosey if you ask me.

Maybe Russia asked for them. Lol.

Worse than that, they want to make it public so anyone can use it.

 

[ttystikk]

Worse than that, they want to make it public so anyone can use it.

You mean, steal it.

 

[ttystikk]

I just heard the Trump administration is trying to get the name of every registered voter in the US, along with address, phone number, SS number and anything else they have where you're registered to vote, to keep on a computer file.

Pretty fucking nosey if you ask me.

Maybe Russia asked for them. Lol.

More intimidation and voter suppression.

Fascist tactics. Is anyone surprised this is where Republicans are going next?

 

[ttystikk]

Yes they absolutely do; Echelon and other NSA programs. To get around American privacy laws, they actually route everything offshore and THEN record it.

We live in the surveillance state George Orwell and others warned us about.

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/39024...safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century

Not only your emails, ladies and gentlemen, but also EVERY PHONE CALL YOU HAVE MADE IN THE PAST DECADE.

ALL OF IT IS RECORDED AND SAVED.

Your Constitutional right to privacy has been utterly subverted by those who would 'save' you from some undefined Boogeyman.

 

[greg nr]

Not only your emails, ladies and gentlemen, but also EVERY PHONE CALL YOU HAVE MADE IN THE PAST DECADE.

ALL OF IT IS RECORDED AND SAVED.

Your Constitutional right to privacy has been utterly subverted by those who would 'save' you from some undefined Boogeyman.

It goes a lot deeper than emails/text messages and phone calls. They can construct a model of everyone you interact with, and everyone they interact with, and when. They can (and do) record public conversations as well perform video surveillance. The power they have is to link everything together, put a name to a face, a real name to a forum post, and do it all very fast.

Remember the story about the guy who put the cnn logo on the wrestlers face trump hit with a chair? Finding that guy was childs play compared to what they can do to link people to anonymous accounts. As long as you post in both public/private and anonymous social media venues, you can be matched up to your real self. Everyone has a writing style. Phrases they use more often than others. Mis spellings or grammar idioms. You might post something innocuous like you went to an amusement park. They can match millions of occurrences and index them. You might be one in thousands of people who match an individual search, but when they cross index those searches you will quickly be the only one who matches multiples.

Most of this capability has been separated from domestic police activities in the past, but now we have an administration that embraces it. There is evidence they are beginning to use this data against critics. And eventually, they will use it against groups.

 

[curious2garden]

I've been sanitizing and protecting all my data for almost 2 decades now, those years at AOL were a game changer for me.

 

[ttystikk]

I've been sanitizing and protecting all my data for almost 2 decades now, those years at AOL were a game changer for me.

How does one do this?