USPS Mishandled Private Information Taken During Mail Surveillance
The U.S. Postal Service didn't take proper precautions with personal information obtained through its controversial "mail cover" surveillance program, according to a new internal audit. Through the program, officials can record the names and addresses on all mail sent to a certain address without obtaining a warrant, but that information is not always well guarded.
The audit, from the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General, focused on the Postal Service's law division, the Postal Inspection Service. Between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, the Inspection Service approved 118,577 program requests for itself and 39,966 for other law enforcement agencies.
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