Garden State Patriot

First, the White House wanted people to snitch on their fellow citizens who opposed their government-run healthcare scheme. Now, we learn of the latest potential intrusion by the White House into our privacy. According to the National Legal and Policy Center, Barack Obama’s White House wants to snoop on our activities on the Internet.

NLPC has uncovered 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.

The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”

The story goes on:

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.

Yes, my friends. The next time you update your status on Twitter it might be used against you. Heck next thing you know playing Mafia Wars on Facebook will be considered a threat by this White House.

One has to wonder at this point, do we have a President in the Oval Office or a KGB agent? In fact, I’m beginning not to wonder at all.

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!