For what it's worth, the cameras are
GSM Cellular License Plate Capture Camera.
Posted on 03/12/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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.
FOX31 Denver investigative reporter Chris Halsne confirmed the hidden camera and recorder is owned and operated by the United State Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement branch of the U.S. Postal Service.
The recording device appeared to be tripped by any vehicle leaving the property on Johnson Road, but the lens was not positioned to capture images of the front door, employee entrance, or loading dock areas of the post office.
An alert customer first noticed the data collection device, hidden inside a utilities box, around Thanksgiving 2014. It stayed in place, taking photos through the busy Christmas holidays and into mid-January.
Managers inside the post office tell FOX31 Denver they were unaware customers were being photographed outside and that the surveillance was not part of the building’s security monitoring.
A spokesperson for Postal Inspection Service declined to address the specific reason for the domestic surveillance, but admitted the agency had a “number of cameras at their disposal.”
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We did locate a California company which claims it sold the U.S. Postal Service “consumer surveillance systems,” which come installed with wireless data retrieval and infrared night capabilities.
Hop-On Incorporated did not return our repeated calls to elaborate on its self-proclaimed deal. Our FOIA requests for federal contracts and financial information about Hop-On and other contractors who sell USPS and USPIS camera equipment were returned to us void of all information.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
If you’re not doing anything wrong what do you have to worry about? /sarc
Some spray paint will fix that quick.
Someone probably used fake ID to open a box to which really bad stuff was being sent and then finally intercepted.
The box holder was picking up the items at odd hours, complicating surveillance.
They put the camera in place to get around that.
This is my GUESS.
Sure, uh huh, and that’s the same excuse they used for the NSA collecting every scrap of data on EVERYONE.
It’s not just government agencies that use these cameras. Private citizens and corporations are using them. All completely legal.
I agree 100%.
I completely distrust this new, creepy Gummint that sees ordinary Americans as unworthy of trust.
It’s very, very suspicious.
What is the big deal?
What's the big deal about Hillary's emails? What's the big deal about giving 'free money' to illegals?
What I didn't comment on is what that license plate scanner connects to:
I think it's important for people to be aware of our 'surveillance state'. For example, the license plate cameras that are becoming more ubiquitous on police cars the past few years...with dubious justification (recall that they started out 'just' to check parking ticket delinquency).
Automatic License Plate Readers
Thought it's BS that DMV was using Facial Recognition? This from 2011.
...and what has the 'next-gen system' evolved into?
(NSA Utah Data Center)
Good question. What's interesting about the OP linked story is that it was a news organization that picked up on the surveillance.
Legal, schmeegle. How different is this from "Papers please"? It's the same...just not 'in your face'.
(point of this post is awareness. I'm part-geek; I follow the development & application of this stuff. Most people haven't a clue. For one thing: Identifying EVERYONE at a Conservative rally with a few cameras in a matter of minutes is no longer the realm of science fiction)
MOON IT!
I’ve used this post office in the past. i’ll be looking around at the one I use now. Maybe bring a little can of spray paint with me.....
I’ve used this post office in the past. I’ll be looking around at the current one, with a spray can of paint ready to go.
But what reason would the USPS have to be recording people’s faces and licenses? What valid reason? Directing cameras on their property in case of theft or vandalism makes sense. The direction of these do not.
Apologies for duping your story (reported in a different site)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3267903/posts
Of course if you're a white Tea Party type, the other cameras are gonna record it and you'll probably wind up a federal felon.
The problem is that what is legal today might be illegal a year from now.
Nah. You didn’t dupe: You reinforced my take on it.
‘Awareness’, as I wrote, is pertinent here. As technology races faster than laws restricting government activities, they apply technology, ironically, to managing US faster than managing their own emails.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3267833/posts?page=13#13
I think we need to be more demanding of our Representatives protecting our privacy without applying the ‘anti-terrorism’ meme as they’ve done ad nauseam since 9/11...to the detriment of our Constitution.
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