From a RFQ in 2009:
Questions & Answers on draft RFQ
1.What are the NARA approved formats for storage of data?
Answer:
For approved NARA formats please review the information
at www.nara.gov
2.Approximately how many sites are controlled by EOP?
Answer:
The 7 networks where the EOP currently maintains a presence are:
www.facebook.com/whitehouse
www.twitter.com/whitehouse
www.myspace.com/whitehouse
www.flickr.com/whitehouse
www.youtube.com/whitehouse
www.vimeo.com/whitehouse
www.slideshare.com/whitehouse
http://nlpc.org/sites/default/files/RFQ_WHOS090003.pdf
I remember when the RFI came out in 2009, originally the Whitehut wanted all social media comments collected and DB’d which sounded nefarious to me back then. Of course, I think we ALL sorta knew that all of our communications, texts, calls, web comments were collected.
Now that is an interesting .pdf
Echelon was the father of “Prism” in my view:
:Still, critics of Echelon warn the potential for abuse never goes away.
“This whole thing is so bizarrely powerful that the opportunity or temptation for abuse is fairly substantial,” says Mr. Pike of the American Federation of Scientists. “How many people in your organization always obey the rules?
“The notion that NSA or any other of these spy networks is the only large organization in human history in which everyone always obeys the rules just flies in the face of common sense,” he says.”
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/docs/000219-echelon.htm