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| White House Still Trying To Get Information On Citizens |
| 2009-09-02 |
| The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has discovered a secret White House project to harvest personal date 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. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Another good reason for people to keep their internet footprint to a minimum. Perhaps it's time to start exchanging ideas via privately owned shipping companies. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-09-02 16:58 |
| #7 Critics of 'data mining' during the Bush years will be as vocal as their counterparts who were against the war are today, when it was Bush's war. It's about power, baby. Except that this data mining is not about terrorism, nor is it being done by an intelligence agency of any kind. This was commissioned by the Office of the White House and the information being gathered is being Classified. This is a blatant attempt at developing a database of individuals who dislike the current administration, most likely for later use in 'trials' or justifications of actions taken against them. This type of thing encourages me to never use Facebook, Myspace, etc. Since my job depends on .gov money I may stop posting at the few sites I participate in. |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2009-09-02 14:53 |
| #6 Harvest this: |
| Posted by: ed 2009-09-02 13:54 |
| #5 Rather than analyzing comments and tag lines, they could get a clear picture by looking at the daily tracking poll to see their problem - most Americans do not like what they are doing. They could also turn on talk radio and find out why they have a problem. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2009-09-02 13:15 |
| #4 The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has discovered a secret White House project to harvest personal date from social networking websites like facebook and twitter. Critics of 'data mining' during the Bush years will be as vocal as their counterparts who were against the war are today, when it was Bush's war. It's about power, baby. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-09-02 09:35 |
| #3 They can collect this: Fuck you Obama. You pull any more of this shit and we will dethrone your stupid ass. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-09-02 07:30 |
| #2 I suspect Barry O can be a mean SOB when he wants to. At least as mean as his fugly wife. Going to get ugly as things continue to go south for him. |
| Posted by: Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-02 01:29 |
| #1 The Proposal requests a bid covers allowing this project to last eight years. Shows Oshit's solid bronze balls, He's sure he'll be reelected? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-02 00:29 |