Teaser: The National Legal and Policy Center claims to have uncovered a secret White House plan to collect data from private citizen's social networking websites.
Have you posted a video of yourself on You Tube? Do you have pictures of your kids on Facebook? How about rants of your political views, or maybe a few choice words aimed at a policy or injustice you have witnessed all played out on MySpace? All of these may be subject to collection and filing at the archives of the White House according to the National Legal and Policy Center.
In a report released Monday the NLPC stated that it uncovered a government contract up for bid which specifies the collection of information from Social Networking mediums. The White House Office of New Media request for contract is deemed by some as necessary in order to Comply with Presidential Records Act. The White House Office of New Media was set up to make the government more technologically approachable and to aid in the transparency of government.
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