From ehackingnews.com
A program that monitors and collects the Social Media posts of the American public even on issues related to planned protest, has secretly been carried out by the U.S. Postal Service law enforcement.
According to a government report issued by Yahoo News on 16th March, the surveillance technique, classified as the Internet Covert Operations Program (ICOP), tracks social networking operations. Though details of the monitoring effort, known as the ICOP, have not been published before. The work includes making analysts trawl through social media pages to search for the details that the paper identifies as “inflammatory” postings. The software forms part of the activities of USPS, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).