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Posted on 09/15/2009 11:54:02 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.
Defenders of the White House actions said the Presidential Records Act requires that the administration gather the information and that it was justified in taking the additional step of asking a private contractor to "crawl and archive" all such material. Nicholas Shapiro, a White House spokesman, declined to say when the practice began or how much the new contract would cost.
In a June 5, 2008, article in PC Magazine, Mr. Obama said, "The open information platforms of the 21st century can also tempt institutions to violate the privacy of citizens. We need sensible safeguards that protect privacy in this dynamic new world."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
American citizens. * Yeah - I'm impressed...
Are they taking info from people who specifically chose to allow only friends or family to see their postings? Or are they taking info from people who allow the public to see their postings?
Because if they are taking info from people who have blocked the public from seeing their postings, what’s the next step? Reading their e-mail?
Wake Up America!!
That's what I would assume, if they are bothering to poke around. The "harvesting" and keeping may be as narrow as keeping what is deposited on WH-sponsored MySpace, Twit-pages, etc. That stuff (material sent to the WH) is supposed to be archived, according to law.
-- Because if they are taking info from people who have blocked the public from seeing their postings, what’s the next step? --
If they are poking into areas that a person is trying to limit access to, then I would find an invasion of privacy.
LOL... what a mess for sure.. LOL.
LMAO!!
And to think the left griped about Bush... War Evesdropping
Glad you approve! ;)
so who is investigating Moveon.org?
what about this guy?
http://worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-5352/Brannon-Howse/Peter-LaBarbera
Ya think. If so then I guess they can monitor this...
FUBO! and all of your commie, socialists, marxists thugs!
read later
no one that I’ve seen.
That's probably true, but what are you gonna do? I'm not going to shut up, and neither are 150,000,000 other Americans.
They're going to have to spend time and effort (and leave electronic trails) to finger us all. I'm not going to make it easy for them by connecting directly with their websites.
Sure they are. As is any government on the face of the earth. All governments conduct surveillance and gather intel, both foreign and domestically.
So what? That's not going to change the tone of what we say here, or how we say it. As a matter of fact, the more, the better. Let 'em understand that this isn't just a few political opponents whispering in a corner.
No, we got 2 million pissed off patriots to DC on 9/12. Opposition to the Zero regime is deep, and it's widespread. Let 'em skulk around, reading our comments. Just as with the 9/12 march on DC, there are probably 100 pissed off Americans not posting on FR, for every one that is.
They have the power to shut everyone of us down.
And you don't think the American people have the power to do the same and more, to them?
You must be a racist to ask such a straightforward question! (After all, everyone else knows that the law doesn't apply to this administration, so to even ask that question shows that you are not part of The Collective!)
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