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White House Mapping Internet Users’ Data For Mass Archives

Status update: Barack Obama is archiving your opinions and personal information

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Sept 16, 2009

If you’re a user of twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube or flickr, and you visit the White House page at any of the sites, you are at risk of having your personal data archived without your consent or knowledge.

The Obama White House has sought a private contractor to “crawl and archive” 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 move represents another broken promise of “change” on behalf of the president who consistently pledged to protect privacy on the Internet during his campaign.

It also comes on the back of recent news that the Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies.

Recent disclosures under the Freedom Of Information Act also reveal that the federal government has several contracts with social media outlets such as Youtube (Google), Facebook, Myspace and Flickr (Yahoo) that waive rules on monitoring users and permit companies to track visitors to government web sites for advertising purposes.

With further news today that Obama is seeking to reauthorize warrantless wiretapping under the PATRIOT Act, and that the DHS plans to supply local “fusion centers” with military surveillance intelligence, it is clear that the privacy of American citizens continues to be systematically eroded under a regime that was voted in on a promise to scale back such activity.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/white-house-mapping-internet-users-data-for-mass-archives.html

Scary stuff...

Is this where the $18 billion for White House website redesign is going?   Folks were wondering why it had such a high price tag.

I also wonder if a domestic or foreign firm and workers will benefit?

More billions to stimulate and benefit foreign companies, nations, and workers?

A bigger security loss for Americans?