{"id":48025,"date":"2013-07-05T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/usps-admits-snooping-of-mail\/48025\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:58:56","slug":"usps-admits-snooping-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/usps-admits-snooping-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Admits Snooping of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2013\/07\/04\/US-Postal-Service-logs-all-mail-for-law-enforcement\/UPI-36491372921200\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPI<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nJuly 5, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service photographs all mail processed nationwide in a program similar to U.S. electronic surveillance, officials and security experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically they are doing the same thing as the other programs, collecting the information on the outside of your mail \u2013 the metadata, if you will \u2013 of names, addresses, return addresses and postmark locations, which gives the government a pretty good map of your contacts, even if they aren\u2019t reading the contents,\u201d computer security expert Bruce Schneier told The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The warrantless surveillance program for law enforcement is called Mail Isolation Control and Tracking. It\u2019s been in effect almost 11 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2013\/07\/04\/US-Postal-Service-logs-all-mail-for-law-enforcement\/UPI-36491372921200\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPI July 5, 2013 The U.S. Postal Service photographs all mail processed nationwide in a program similar to U.S. electronic surveillance, officials and security experts say. \u201cBasically they are doing the same thing as the other programs, collecting the information on the outside of your mail \u2013 the metadata, if you will \u2013 of names, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}