> The history of abuse of mail covers, as the lawmakers note, is a long one. A famous incident occurred in the 1970s, when a 15-year-old girl mistakenly wrote t

> The history of abuse of mail covers, as the lawmakers note, is a long one. A famous incident occurred in the 1970s, when a 15-year-old girl mistakenly wrote to the Socialist Workers Party—a communist organization strongly supportive of Cuba—while researching a school assignment involving the Socialist Labor Party. The teenager was thoroughly investigated by the FBI, which even sent an agent into her school. Isn't information printed on mail cover (exterior of an mail) is something equivalent to meta data (in for example Email)? I bet if you write an email to people such as Edward Snowden or some other POIs, the FBI will be interested to record it, take a look and maybe even asking some questions as well. They are less likely to "thoroughly investigate" for just a single instance of course, but that's because the environment has changed, not because they have new rules say they shouldn't. Plus, what's the worst that could happen if you didn't break any law? I often hear the story of people said something wrong online and got an FBI visit, and they ended up fine. Another example is a YouTube channel called Second Thought and one of his video costed him a DHS visit (see https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746172570677250 https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/133274617257067725...), his still rising on YouTube after the encounter. I bet the teenager was fine too after the investigation (???)