White House spying on users through the Internet

The administration of U.S. President collects and stores in a special database of all the comments on the blogs of Barack Obama on sites such as Facebook and YouTube, not alerting the public. This practice is contrary to the public Obama's promises to protect Internet users' right to privacy. About it writes The Washington Times.Soglasno Act of 1978, all official information pertaining to U.S. presidents and vice-presidents and members of the administration, is collected and stored in national archives. This information also includes correspondence and officials, except private. Five years after the president resigned data become otkrytymi.Bely house believes that the law applies to blogs Barack Obama on social networks Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and Slideshare. Therefore, all the comments users to presidential records are copied into a special database of the National arhiva.V August 2009, the administration of U.S. President announced a competition to perform these duties. Applications are accepted until October 2. The winning company must provide automatic archiving of all comments at least twice a day. The data should be stored in a structured way, allowing officials to seek the necessary informatsiyu.Posetiteli pages of Barack Obama's social networks do not expect that their utterance will fall into the government's database of respondents believe The Washington Times defenders. The publication quoted the U.S. president who promises to protect the privacy of Internet users. According to journalists, archiving all the comments without notice to the visitors contradicts public statements of Barack Obama.

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