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 ...
BTTT!
I fear the worst from the socialists. They will not be happy until those that oppose them are put in gulags, personally destroyed. Those of us here at FR are certainly at the top of the list. Fortunately we’re smarter than they are. We can defeat these clowns by simply staying informed, and not letting our guard down.
I’ve sent to Beck, Rush, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, AOSHQ, HotAir, Drudge, C4P and Dan Reihl...as well as posted it in Twitter and FB both on my profile and on Palin’s wall.
I’m hoping that researchers will look into this thing and see if it’s legit or a false alarm so we know the truth and can act accordingly.
More of the same...
“...Holy ****! So they are saying since by law they have to record everything that is ‘sent to the whitehouse’ and since the whitehouse has a facebook page (and the others) then just to be safe they will try to record everything said by everyone everywhere on the whole site...”
Exactly!
This thread needs some bumping to get the traffic up. It is already under several other “Breaking News” articles on FreeRepublic this morning.
I expected far more Freeper outrage.
Thank you!
I am unable to open your supporting link for this. Perhaps the site is being hammered??
I’d post it on Facebook but not without the original link. Will keep checking..
If anyone has the article page open, please post the FedBizOps.gov url for the solicitation.
The article site is being hammered.
Solicitation:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eec856940efb75b2b1c11e2b1d5660a4&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=
PDF: http://www.nlpc.org/sites/default/files/RFQ_WHOS090003.pdf
Can someone fix this URL, I don't think it will post correctly? Thanks!
I believe this means they will archive the messages posted to White House accounts on social networking sites. This is approximately the same as saving a letter mailed to the White House, unless they plan to use data gathering to form remote access to your personal computer. So let's not panic.
When the Bush Administration wanted to analyze the pattern of call frequency to numbers in terrorist-sympathizing nations, the left went crazy thinking the WH would be "listening in" on private phone calls to people's doctors or phone sex line. That was not the case -- they wanted to look for spikes of activity to known terrorists outside the country, but once the hysteria took hold, there were ridiculous accusations of denied civil rights and trampling the Constitution, etc., based on ignorance.
So let's find out more about this. Reporters need to study this proposal and ask Gibbs a lot of detailed technical questions.
And some patriots need to submit proposals and try to get into the information loop.
No, no. Leave “rich” in because it is code for taxpaying American. :)
To be honest, if you are stupid enough to put your life on Facebook or whatever, you have only yourself to blame.
Just sent it to Drudge
J. Edgar Hoover did warn against this. The picture on the first page makes mention of this. The book may still be available. Title of the book is “Masters of Deceipt” published in 1957. Real spooky read in that Hoover describes the actions of the CPUSA and what tactics they were planning to use to subvert the US. The dimrat party is following this book like it’s their playbook. For the longest time, I never understood why the left savaged Hoover, but now it makes perfect sense.
JimRob would never give me up, but dang, I am a friend of Sarah Palin’s on Facebook......I am doomed.
If this is credible, Beck will pick it up.
WHERE IS THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES??? Its like the third branch of government just disappeared.
I agree. I haven’t read the entire RFQ, but from what I have read thusfar, it appears that they want to automate the process of saving all the data where they have a presence as required by law. Presence as in their own facebook account, twitter account, etc...
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