Posted on 09/16/2009 6:04:57 AM PDT by Joiseydude
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.
Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information.
"The White House has not been adequately transparent, particularly on how it makes use of new social media techniques, such as this example," he said.
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I’m stunned, stunned I tell ya.
Hey, Baraq U Bam Maw! You can collect all mine you want you putz impostor!
Where is the media?
Where are the “journalists”?
What if GWB had done this?
Welcome to the world of Open Source, everyone leaves a digital footprint, even me. :(
More of Obummer’s so called “Community Organizing” tactics just like the way he’s organized those Acorn people!
This ia much much bigger than “flag you”.
A “private contractor” has been hired to web crawl on social sites and retrieve anything critical of this administration. Hello IRS auditor and goodbye govt employment perhaps for your yourself and your children if you are archived among the dissenters.
ITS social-networking sites? The White House owns Facebook, Twitter and YouTube?? I don't think so. OR is that just the typical shoddy journalism?
Best 4 years Obama will remember was third grade ........
If GWB did this it would be a week long NYT front page scandal with calls for investigations and such.
End of free speech and a real beginning of the movie, 2081.
Freedom and equality for all! Equal poverty, equal nothing!
If I recall correctly, the surveillance act by President Bush was considered a trampling of the constitution by the dimrat media. They were howling on the feds spying on terrorists cell phone calls. They accused the Bush admin of listening in on our phone calls and screening our e mails. This was simply not the case. Now ozero is actually doing this and his media is providing cover for actual spying on American citizens.
The dimrats actually do a good job of showing who they are by their accusations of others.
I just want to be the voice of reason on this issue. I believe that when the White House refers to “their” social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, they are referring to their PAGES on those sites, not to the entire site. They are storing information that is posted on their page, not all information posted on the website as a whole.
Any of you who frequent Facebook understand how it works. You have your own wall and profile, and if you allow it, other users can make comments, post videos, etc., on your wall. I believe that the White House is probably correct in their interpretation of the Presidential records act that is leading them to believe that these postings are the equivalent of email or other correspondence that they actually receive at the White House, which they are required to save.
In other words, if they weren’t saving this data, there would be people on this site claiming that in not doing so, the White House was breaking the law.
I just want to make sure we don’t overreact to things that are not as serious as some would make them out to be.
I just looked whitehouse deactivated there ‘post a video response’ at youtube. But the article says those that post a video at “it’s ... site” are being tracked thus they must be doing the whole site or this is a poorly written article.
Something fishy about this one too....this is what Marxists do. Collect and attack.
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