EFF Files FOIA Suit on USPS Social Media ‘Surveillance’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. Postal Service Tuesday, seeking “records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests.” EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District…
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Court in Washington. EFF wants details about USPS internet covert operations, in which U.S. Postal Inspection Service analysts allegedly “sorted through massive amounts of data created by social media users to surveil what they were saying and sharing.” Government hasn’t “explained the legal justifications for this surveillance,” said EFF Public Interest Legal Fellow Houston Davidson. USPS didn’t comment.