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on one hand it's seems like a nice feature but I can't help but to think this is clever marketing spin for a surveillance backed project.
by dangerboysteve 10y ago
on one hand it's seems like a nice feature but I can't help but to think this is clever marketing spin for a surveillance backed project.
- jonknee 10y agoAnd on yet another hand it's obvious you can't deliver mail at $.49 a pop without heavy doses of automation. Surveillance or not, the USPS will be taking images of your mail.
- dsl 10y agoEverything sent via USPS is already scanned and put into a surveillance system (Google for "mail cover"). This product is likely a result of the data collected from the surveillance project, not the other way around.
- code_duck 10y agoThey use OCR to interpret as many addresses as possible, then resort to sending digital images of difficult labels to remote centers to be read by a human. See http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/usps-remote-encoding-facility http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/usps-remote-encoding-faci... So, of course they have images of all your mail. Also, it's been known for some time that the federal government collects data on mail, like emails and phone calls. This article covers that, from 2013... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail... and it involves this program, which apparently exists for legitimate business purposes, but the data is also used for surveillance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tracking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_T...