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RED ALERT: White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites
National Legal and Policy Center ^ | August 31, 2009 | Ken Boehm

Posted on 09/02/2009 3:38:34 AM PDT by PowerPro

NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.

The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”

In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003, it is posted at FedBizzOps.com. Click here to download a 51-page pdf of the solicitation.

While the solicitation specifies a 12-month contract, it allows for seven one-year extensions. It specifies no dollar cap. Other troubling issues include:

extremely broad secrecy terms preventing the vendor from disclosing to the public or the media what information is being captured and archived (page 7, “Restriction Against Disclosure”)

wholesale capturing of comments by non-White House staff on publicly accessible sites

capturing of content of any type (text, graphics, audio, or video)

capturing of comments by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.

This is the third controversy involving the White House internet operations in less than a month. First, Obama’s New Media operation asked supporters to send information about critics of the White House health care effort to a White House email. This provoked a storm of criticism and the White House retreated. Then large number of people complained of getting email spam from the White House supporting the President’s health care position. Again the White House was forced to back down.

(Excerpt) Read more at nlpc.org ...


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To: PowerPro

So he can know how many people play FarmTown?


81 posted on 09/02/2009 6:50:18 AM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: PowerPro
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82 posted on 09/02/2009 6:50:33 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: tioga

Haa! I’m a friend of hers too. And I post a lot of under-reported political links on Facebook along with my own pithy yet pertinent comments to go with them.

And I have no intention of stopping.


83 posted on 09/02/2009 6:51:29 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”



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84 posted on 09/02/2009 6:54:19 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: PowerPro

PING for later read.


85 posted on 09/02/2009 6:55:40 AM PDT by mentor2k
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To: Saoirise

Speak of the devil...

I’ve been getting a lot of invites to “join” friends on these sites. NO.


86 posted on 09/02/2009 7:04:56 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Never give up, never give out, never give in.)
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To: jer33 3

Thanks for the link.


87 posted on 09/02/2009 7:05:55 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

It appears as if the site is being overwhelmed by people checking this out. Excellent.

Hopefully, Robert Gibbs is, right now, having his fingers pried from a West Wing door jamb as he sobs, “Don’t make me go out there..please don’t make me have to explain this...”


88 posted on 09/02/2009 7:06:42 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: Albion Wilde
Ok, I'll wait to do this:

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89 posted on 09/02/2009 7:07:51 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Danae

A better question is where are the constitution loving legal groups and or republicans/liberterians filing cases in the Supreme Court regarding Obama’s Abuse Of Power? The court must wait for a case before they act.


90 posted on 09/02/2009 7:08:42 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Eroteme

Gibbs won’t get any questions on this and if he does, he will just have some smart ass reply. The WH press corps have become an utter joke.


91 posted on 09/02/2009 7:10:35 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: PowerPro

NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.


Harvest this:


FUBO



92 posted on 09/02/2009 7:12:34 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: PowerPro

How the HELL are they getting away with this crap? Cripes! WHERE are the GOP screaming about this?


93 posted on 09/02/2009 7:12:46 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: nutmeg; MeekOneGOP; Jeff Head

Ping!


94 posted on 09/02/2009 7:12:59 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: IamConservative

>Here is one dissenting opinion they can harvest:<

What do you really think? Don’t hold back now.
I hate it when people beat around the bush!


95 posted on 09/02/2009 7:14:57 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Sprite518

It’s like they’re begging us to revolt. Amazing how Zero is doing everything that they accused Bush of doing on a daily basis.


96 posted on 09/02/2009 7:18:01 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Never on my watch

This is nearly unbelievable.

It would be completely unbelievable if it weren’t for the prior lessons we should get from studying history: the history of Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia.


97 posted on 09/02/2009 7:19:40 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: PowerPro

I am not nervous at all. I’m already on all of their lists!


98 posted on 09/02/2009 7:22:35 AM PDT by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: AFPhys; All

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/02/does-obama-plan-to-spy-on-social-networking-sites/

It’s getting more coverage - Hot Air has it up..


99 posted on 09/02/2009 7:22:58 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Sprite518

Yes, they are because it is illegal for the White House to collect information on the people for whatever reason, and with this White House, I cannot believe that it would be for positive reasons.


100 posted on 09/02/2009 7:24:07 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Senator Edward Kennedy 1932-2009, May he rot in hell.)
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