{"id":65176,"date":"2026-11-11T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65176"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:42:14","slug":"reason-documents-reveal-the-postal-services-broad-surveillance-of-political-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65176","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Documents Reveal the Postal Service’s Broad Surveillance of Political Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reason: Documents Reveal the Postal Service’s Broad Surveillance of Political Activists<\/a> by J.D. Tuccille (“‘The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests,’ Jana Winter first reported in 2021 for Yahoo! News. Among the organizations alarmed by the disclosure was the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which filed suit to learn more about the surveillance program. ‘After years of delays and technical failures that led the agency to lose access to a trove of emails discussing the program,’ wrote EFF Deputy Legal Director Aaron Mackey, the organization was finally able to extract some key documents about iCOP from the postal cops this month. Others were apparently destroyed. ‘The disclosures include a series of bulletins created from iCOP, which show that the postal service used the program in 2020 and 2021 to monitor and circulate information about a wide range of planned protests’ from ‘across the political spectrum,’ Mackey added.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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