Big Brother Barack

The White House is hiring a contractor to extract information about Americans from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, and YouTube. The NLPC (National Legal and Policy Center) has revealed that the White House New Media team wants to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as commments, posts, tags, e-mail, audio, and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence." The information will be held up to eight years.

NLPC warns, "[V]irtually any communication mentioning the president or the administration could become subject to collection and archiving under the act. This is not out of an 'abundance of caution,' but out of an over-abundance of power. President Obama should make sure that this plan goes no further."

According to the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, federal agencies have negotiated agreements and contracts with social networking sites like Google, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook, AddThis, Blist, Flickr and VIMEO to collect information on visitors for federal websites. All of these private companies are known to have agreements with federal agencies, but the public has never seen them.

In public comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, EPIC notes it has obtained documents that show federal agencies have negotiated these contracts with the private sector in violation of "existing statutory privacy rights." Those agencies include: Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and the National Security Agency.

My Response

This is getting scary. First Obama starts a snitch website so people can report anyone who tries to oppose his new health care bill, but now he wants to keep track of anything and everything we say. Why do they need this information? What are they using it for? They have NO RIGHT to do this. Next thing we know, if we even think about disagreeing with the government, they will track us down and chip us. With Obama as our president, things are getting worse by the day. To those of you who don't think that he can ruin this country in four years, think again.