Kevin Kosar on Postal Service Mail-Tracking

Last week,
the New York Times reported there were nearly 50,000
incidents of mail surveillance in 2013. Under the “mail cover”
program, which has been around for roughly a century, federal,
state and even local law enforcement officials can trace a target’s
mail using data collected from the outside of an envelope or a
parcel, including sender and recipient, addresses, and where the
mail entered the postal system. Such tracking has reportedly been
conducted without proper authorization and for troubling purposes.
What, asks the R Street Institute’s Kevon Kosar, do public
officials plan to do about this invasion of our privacy?

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