Posted on 09/17/2009 6:11:53 AM PDT by Mozilla
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.
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.
The National Legal and Policy Center, a government ethics watchdog, said archiving the sites would have a "chilling effect" on Web site users who might wish to leave comments critical of the administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Big Brother is watching you.
Facebook, twit, and youboob are the white houses social networking sites? Or are those sites pro obama commies providing the white house with user info? I think it needs to be clarified.
As if I needed a reason to avoid the WH sites.
oops. That clarifies it. And why is o'dummies's blackberry conversations exempt from this presidential records act? Doesn't want his conversations with Ayers, scoring some blow, and Soros's orders recorded I guess.
Well since they can do that to us... We should do the exact same to them. There are a whole lot more of us that would know how to do it.
TOTAL Nonsense! 1-Mil followers on Twitter? There may be 100,000 paid Obamabots. But that statistic is a total lie. But that seems to be how the administration approaches everything. If the facts reflect poorly just tell another whopper.
HA! Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they ain’t out to get’cha!
If the facts reflect poorly just tell another whopper.
Dat jus bees dare culture, you know.
Everyone here should take the link to the Washington Times article and post it on your Facebook, etc. website and let all your friends know. Watch how quickly the White House backs away from it.
I have already posted it for all my friends list to see.
Helloooo...? ACLU...? You there?
so open up a bunch of Twitter accounts and write yourself some VB script to tweet “Bam Sucks!” every 15 seconds or so
[the sound of crickets......]
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