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Report: Obama White House Plans To Harvest Personal Data From Networking Sites
Nice Deb — It just keeps getting worse. Remember when the left had apoplectic hissy fits over the warrantless wiretap program the Bush administration established after Sept. 11 in order to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists’ conversations. Although many saw it as an infringement on civil liberties, the wiretap program was put in place to save American lives. Whose life/lives are ...

White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks
Pirate's Cove — Ah, remember the good old days, when people on the Left flipped out and lied about a program to monitor communications from overseas to known and suspected Islamic terrorists without a warrant? Remember when the left pitched hissy fits over the the Bush administration gathering information about phone call patterns from the telecoms, which included simply names? Remember when they went ballistic over a Pentagon plan to scour the Internet for suspicious patterns that could uncover terrorist plots, a year and a half after 9/11? Oh, how times change NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort ...

White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks
Stop The ACLU — White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks Posted on September 2, 2009 Ah, remember the good old days, when people on the Left flipped out and lied about a program to monitor communications from overseas to known and suspected Islamic terrorists without a warrant? Remember when the left pitched hissy fits over the the Bush administration gathering information about phone call patterns from the telecoms, which included simply names? Remember when they went ballistic over a Pentagon plan to scour the Internet for suspicious patterns that could uncover terrorist plots, a year and a half after 9/11? Oh, how times change NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media ...

White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks
Right Wing News — Ah, remember the good old days, when people on the Left flipped out and lied about a program to monitor communications from overseas to known and suspected Islamic terrorists without a warrant? Remember when the left pitched hissy fits over the the Bush administration gathering information about phone call patterns from the telecoms, which included simply names? Remember when they went ballistic over a Pentagon plan ...

Does Obama plan to spy on social-networking sites?
Hot Air » Top Picks — Does Obama plan to spy on social-networking sites? posted at 9:30 am on September 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Today’s rumor of presidential overreach starts at the National Legal and Policy Center and the Drudge Report , which has launched a slew of e-mails about official spying on social-networking sites.  The NLPC found an RFP from FedBizOpps , the site that publishes all opportunities to do business with the federal government, that offers a contract for a company to collate data from the Internet. Is Big Brother upon us? NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a ...

Ed Morrissey: 'Does Obama plan to spy on social-networking sites?'
Hyscience — ... Ed Morrissey addresses yesterday's rumor of presidential overreach involving a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, "secret" effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites and suggests that Big Brother is not upon us. The rumor stemmed from an RFP from FedBizOpps, the site that publishes all opportunities to do business with the federal government, that offers a contract for a company to collate data from the Internet. ...

Turning the Internet into an Albatross: Fresh Outrage Over Obama's "Secret" SocNet Plan
techPresident — What began with the FoxNews-led blowback against the Obama White House s new media team s request for people to turn in fishy emails gained steam when the White House mistakenly blasted out a pro-health reform email to thousands of people who hadn t signed up to receive it. And now, White House opponents now have the all-important Act III of the narrative that Obama is guilty of misusing and abusing the Internet. The latest strike against him, in the eyes of critics, is that the White House new media team has issued a request for proposals asking federal IT contractors to develop a Presidential Records Act -compliant system for auto-archiving the contents of White House pages on ...