The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama’s promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.
Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information.
“The White House has not been adequately transparent, particularly on how it makes use of new social media techniques, such as this example,” he said.
Defenders of the White House actions said the Presidential Records Act requires that the administration gather the information and that it was justified in taking the additional step of asking a private contractor to “crawl and archive” all such material. Nicholas Shapiro, a White House spokesman, declined to say when the practice began or how much the new contract would cost.
Read More: By Audrey Hudson, Washington Times
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What are you doing with OUR information, Barack Hussein Nixon? Compiling an Enemies List?
I think you would call it Obamas Hit List, once he has absolute power to eliminate all opposition…Who would have ever thought this could happen in America? A Communist / Islamic Regime is taking over your country and where are the protesters? Maybe America needs an American Spring? A clean out of all the corrupt Obama Administration, and their RINO enablers as well! plus all the Communists and Muslims Obama privately appointed without approval of Congress or Election! It will have to be a popular UPRISING of The People! Guess thats why Department of Homeland Security has been shoring up millions of rounds of ammo!!
How is this even allowed??? Our Governemnt is going to *hit and taking the country with it. And now I'm on the Obama hit list.
The man is lighting as many fires as he can as often as he can. He has 35 arsonists called 'czars' who are keeping us busy minding our pocket books and our backs!
I don't trust anything that comes from this administration, and I wonder what Obama's true agenda is.
I am deeply concerned for the future of the great country we live in. And now I suppose I am on the "hit list"