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 ...
Their trolls are here just about every day.
If I leave out "rich" can I say "ditto?"
FYI- need to do some checking on this for accuracy- but the problem is we already know this administration would be perfectly capable of attempting actions of this nature...
I’ll be more than pleased if this turns out to be a false alarm but given what we know of these people...truly, nothing would surprise me.
“Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003, it is posted at FedBizzOps.com. Click here to download a 51-page pdf of the solicitation.”
Probably doing it incorrectly, but I don’t see it from there, it just takes me to another site and am not giving my name or email to receive bids.
Turn off cookies and scripts and go to:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?cck=1&au=&ck=
There is a script within it that goes to
http://www.symplicity.com/
but by using noscript or similar add on, you block it.
This is summary of RFQ
Description: The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA maintains a presence, throughout the term of the contract. The contractor shall if possible, capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP on non-public websites. The contractor shall include in the information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence both comments posted on pages created by EOP and messages sent to EOP accounts on those web sites. Publicly-accessible sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites. The contractor shall provide a user-friendly way of organizing and searching captured information. The contractor shall properly transfer the captured information, as identified by EOP, to NARA in an acceptable format for both preservation in NARA’s Electronic Records Archive and presentation at the future Presidential Library. The Contractor shall provide a method to separate content posted by other EOP component offices as required.
Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Posted Date: August 21, 2009
Response Date: Sep 10, 2009 4:00 pm Eastern
Archiving Policy: Automatic, 15 days after response date
Archive Date: September 25, 2009
Original Set Aside: N/A
Set Aside: N/A
Classification Code:
D — Information technology services, including telecommunications services
NAICS Code: 541 — Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services/541519 — Other Computer Related Services
“If true, then this White House is in a pant load of trouble
Why? They have openly broken laws and nothing was said or done. What makes this different? “
Alert! Obama is a communist plant who is not a legal natural born citizen, who surrounded himself with communist advisors, who was trained and planted by the Soviet Union in order to destroy the United States.
Look the other way, nothing to see here, move along.
I bet if Palin or Cheney were to mention it, it would get attention.
bttt
Just posted it on my facebook
Yes.
Oh I’m sure he is well aware of it. I posted on my facebook and twitter. I am sure we will hear this all day.
Looks like it:
Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200093/posts
I’ve tweeted, emailed and Facebooked on this.
I’m still hoping that it’s not true but we have to be ready for the probability that this is real and get the word out pronto.
This si why I don’t subscribe to these. How does the IRS track a tax evader down from his Facebook messages? How intensely are they already watching. I set up a false account name on Facebook and got hits from several people in my email address book. They’re already harvesting data.
It’s insidious. How else was the WH able to send mass mailings to peopke who had never cntacted them. Other than FR and precious few other sites, I am doing my best to stay ‘off the grid’
bookmark
I’ll second that. I have nothing nice to say anymore it seems. Well, maybe Lock and Load..
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