Spitzelstaat USA

Donnerstag, 4.7.2013, 07:56 > daMax

Die Amis fotografieren übrigens jeden Briefumschlag, der in Amerika zugestellt wird. Jeden.

Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, but that is only a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.

Die Stasi war ein Witz dagegen.

PS: hier die Verhaltensanweisung für Homeland-Security-Spitzel von 2011.

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