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Undaunted by the "closed due to popular demand" White House "snitch on your neighbor" site and unsolicited E-Mails to private citizens scandal, the Obama Administration is accepting bids for a new spying program to collect information from publicly-accessible websites to include social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video.
Publicly-accessible sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites. The contractor shall provide a user-friendly way of organizing and searching captured information.
While the solicitation specifies a 12-month contract, it allows for seven one-year extensions. It specifies no dollar cap. Other troubling issues 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 comments by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.
Undaunted by the "closed due to popular demand" White House "snitch on your neighbor" site and unsolicited E-Mails to private citizens scandal, the Obama Administration is accepting bits for a new spying program to collect information from publicly-accessible websites to include social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video.
Publicly-accessible sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites. The contractor shall provide a user-friendly way of organizing and searching captured information.
While the solicitation specifies a 12-month contract, it allows for seven one-year extensions. It specifies no dollar cap. Other troubling issues 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 comments by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.
Big brother's been watching me for years. As a consequence I've learned to travel in loopy figure 8 patterns when engaged in non routine activity. I park long distances from my destination and walk to places of business that are completely out of sync with my personality. I always change the TV station twice before turning it off so when he comes in to clean my house he won't know what I've been watching. And here's the kicker... I use his email when writing flame messages to my congressman. And save pics of total strangers on social pages and post them as mine on porn sites. When I find one of his wife I'm going to announce our engagement. So, I hope he's not reading this.
This is appalling.. The ****s gonna hit the fan soon.
Sadly it won't. The MSM will cover for this administration no matter what happens...the ACLU won't even blink, and any outrage wil be labeled right-wing paranoia. It's amazing to watch happen.
Wait a minute, Obama is evil incarnate for "passing laws" so the government can spy on people using the patriot act...
...that was passed by Bush in 2001, and used by him to do it and it is okay.
I smell another case of hypocritical behavior.
So you have no problem with this and are not a hypocrite?
What happened to change?
What happened to new transparency?
Do you understand the difference between listening in on overseas phone calls by known terrorists and mining data from Facebook, organizing it into a user friendly form and using it for an undisclosed purpose?
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