Jim Harper writes:
Page one of today’s Washington Times—above the fold—has a fascinating story indicting the White House for failing to disclose that it will collect and retain material posted by visitors to its pages on social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube. The story is fascinating because so much attention is being paid to it. (It was first reported, as an aside at least, by Major Garrett on Fox News a month ago.)
The question here is not over the niceties of the Presidential Records Act, which may or may not require collection and storage of the data. It’s over people’s expectations when they use the Internet.
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Related: EXCLUSIVE: W.H. collects Web users’ data without notice. As Harper suggests, this is not really an EXCLUSIVE or news. This site covered it on September 3, here.
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