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Thousands of Americans’ Mail Monitored by Law Enforcement, Records Reveal
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2024
by Jo Ellen Nott
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2024, page 35
Filed under:
Mail Regulations.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jo Ellen Nott
A congressional probe revealed that the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) has shared a decade’s worth of data with law enforcement. This information, known as metadata, is gathered from the outside of envelops and packages and does not require a warrant.
The USPS collects this data under ...
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