Why Are Post Office Secret Cameras Recording People’s Faces and License Plates?

Why Are Post Office Secret Cameras Recording People’s Faces and License Plates?

DENVER — Within an hour of FOX31 Denver discovering a hidden camera, which was positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Golden Post Office, the device was ripped from the ground and disappeared.

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Can we expect this at the U.S. border as well?

Already a thread for this.
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Thats just totally uncalled for and the reasons for it being there (according to the post service's respenice to investigation) are laughable, just not actually funny at all.



I just love the "for criminal investigations" - are they for real? Sworn to protecting the privacy of the public? BY RECORDING EVERYONE? erm, seriously?!

Could MacDonald's record everyone's face name and type of payment for the same bullbleep reasons? Surveillance has really gone completely OTT regardless of "reasons" for it.

I wonder if it was ripped up by a citizen (or potential criminal, because of all those criminals that use snail mail right) or by the post office themselves having been busted?

a reply to: Autorico

You know your link comes right to this OP?

On Topic : They'll come up with some excuse like needing to record in case dangerous packages are mailed. In reality, they just want every bit of info they can get on everyone. Wait and see, this will never be fully explained and they'll just hide the cameras better in the future.

a reply to: DAVID64

oops, changed it to the right link.

a reply to: wasaka

I wonder if the post office spying has any connection to this story a while back
Why Is the Post Office Buying Bullets?

a reply to: Autorico

I thought this OP looked very familiar.

People who go to the P.O. often are often the people with no registered address- just getting their mail.

Keeping tabs on them, maybe? After all, those in charge don't like the idea of not being able to disappear you at a moments notice.

originally posted by: lordcomac
People who go to the P.O. often are often the people with no registered address- just getting their mail.

Keeping tabs on them, maybe? After all, those in charge don't like the idea of not being able to disappear you at a moments notice.

Good point. I didn't think of that myself.
But how that I do think about it, it also
reminds me of another story about how
private companies will set up stations
to record private mobile phone traffic
(both text msgs and verbal communica-
tions). There is some question as to
who might be doing this, and for what
purpose... but maybe, just maybe it is
the same private (profit driven) spies
behind these cameras.

We think it is the government overstepping
it Constitution bounds, but the alternative
is even more alarming and dangerous.