Recent court filings show that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will disclose documents about its controversial social media surveillance program, but government has also indicated it may fight to keep other records secret. USPS faces several lawsuits from non-profit groups over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP)—the existence of which was revealed in April, when Yahoo News reported on an internal USPS memo about monitoring right-wing anti-lockdown protestors. Judicial Watch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the James Madison Project have filed separate complaints against the USPS for failing to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records on the program, while the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued because government hasn’t conducted a privacy impact assessment for iCOP—a review of what information is collected, why it’s being collected, how the information is used, and how the data is stored. Recent filings in the Judicial Watch and EFF cases reveal that USPS holds more than 12,000 records related …
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