White House collecting personal data

[Pete]

August 5, 2009

Cornyn worried White House collecting personal data
@ 1:30 pm by Eric Zimmermann

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) is worried that the White House will use a new media outreach program to collect the personal data of its political opponents.

Yesterday, the White House asked supporters to forward "fishy" claims or rumors about the President's healthcare plan to a White House email address as a way to respond to "disinformation."

Cornyn says this practice would let the White House collect personal information about people who oppose the President.

"By requesting citizens send 'fishy' emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email, addresses, IP addresses and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House," Cornyn wrote in a letter to Obama. "You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program."

Cornyn asked Obama to cease the program immediately, or at the very least explain what the White House would do with the information it collects.

"I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure speech that is deemed 'fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests," Cornyn said.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009...personal-data/

[longrange1947]

Hmmm, sounds rather Stalinistic to me.

[Aoresteen]

More like the Alinsky playbook from Chicago.

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by longrange1947

Hmmm, sounds rather Stalinistic to me.

Some how we've got to put a collar on this guy or we'll all be marching goose-stepping to his orders...............

Big Teddy

[Gypsy]

What's this...the former community organizer is upset with communities organizing?

Oh, the irony.

[Pete]

Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanent

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-52571822.html

"So the White House, whether by design or accident, has requested information from the public that will become 'records' under the Presidential Records Act, yet would be impermissible for any government to otherwise collect under the Privacy Act," writes one Judiciary Committee source. "Where were the lawyers in all of this? What is their legal basis for authorizing the collection of these records?"

[afchic]

We are on the road to hell folks. Every day my stomach turns a little more.