Thursday, September 3, 2009

What Could Go Wrong?

The following article excerpt is from Worldnetdaily.com. Anyone else creeped out by the White House hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans off the internet? What could go wrong?


"The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

"The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence" – for a period of up to eight years.

"'The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence,' the posting states."


The rest of the article is at this link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108696

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