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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: formerlurker on September 16, 2009, 05:13:00 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: Obama W.H. collects web users' data
Washington Times
Audrey Hudson (Contact)
EXCLUSIVE:
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
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-users-data//print/
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Isn't this explicity illegal, violating the Privacy Act?
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More interesting would be how they seemingly get around the privacy features of such places like facebook that are specifically designed to prevent unwanted access to data (assuming of course the user activates them).
One might add that anything one posts about themselves on the internet especially on places like youtube and other sites that lack privacy enforcement features should be considered in the public domain anyway.
If you don't want the government spiders to know about it - don't put it out there. Especially in a unprotected manner.
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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.
Doesn't this mean that they are keeping track of things on their own pages for those sites? While it may be shady, would it be any different than one of us taking screenshots of our facebook page to keep a record of the comments? Granted, I think they should disclose this fact, but given the way 0Bama acts, I would assume it as a given.
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More interesting would be how they seemingly get around the privacy features of such places like facebook that are specifically designed to prevent unwanted access to data (assuming of course the user activates them).
One might add that anything one posts about themselves on the internet especially on places like youtube and other sites that lack privacy enforcement features should be considered in the public domain anyway.
If you don't want the government spiders to know about it - don't put it out there. Especially in a unprotected manner.
It was weird last night, during the middle of the night. I was bored, and awake, and decided to look around for Fat Che, who's been absent a long time now, and I'm worried. Maybe he did in fact lose his house, and his wife, her job.
I ended up on some really weird web-site--no, I didn't save the link, because it was just so weird--where Fat Che, the late red round one, the malicious cartoon character (the "Kelvin Mace" primitive), and some anonymous army guy, were all described as and "proven" to be "right wing" covert "operators." franksolich had a cameo role.
It was just so weird.
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Well that explains why the White House had me pulled from the Memorial Day wreath...the look I got on Friday at the Pentagon and why when I saluted as a certain V.I.P. left...it got blown off.
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Call racist on their as*es