Well if you're into this here web thingy and like your privacy anyway
White House Still Trying To Get Information On Citizens
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has discovered a secret White House project to harvest personal data from social networking websites like facebook and twitter.
The White House office of New Media has sent out a request for proposals from technology vendors to develop and run the project. According to the proposal request, 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." The Proposal requests a bid covers allowing this project to last eight years.
In all fairness if you read the PDF of the solicitation, it speaks of the project as a way to to comply with the Presidential Records Act. But then there are the frightening parts especially for this administration which promises to be the most transparent in history. The disturbing parts of the proposal 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 comment by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.
This is the link to NLPC's report/article but evidently their servers are down
http://nlpc.org/stories/2009/08/31/o...orking-website
contract description/PDF
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportun...&cck=1&au=&ck=
White House Still Trying To Get Information On Citizens
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has discovered a secret White House project to harvest personal data from social networking websites like facebook and twitter.
The White House office of New Media has sent out a request for proposals from technology vendors to develop and run the project. According to the proposal request, 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." The Proposal requests a bid covers allowing this project to last eight years.
In all fairness if you read the PDF of the solicitation, it speaks of the project as a way to to comply with the Presidential Records Act. But then there are the frightening parts especially for this administration which promises to be the most transparent in history. The disturbing parts of the proposal 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 comment by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.
This is the link to NLPC's report/article but evidently their servers are down
http://nlpc.org/stories/2009/08/31/o...orking-website
contract description/PDF
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportun...&cck=1&au=&ck=
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