And more. It seems the White House has an RFQ (request for quote), that calls for the harvesting of personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”

From RFQ NUMBER: WHO-S-09-0003 [link: PDF]

1. Purpose
The purpose of this Statement of Objectives (SOO) is to obtain the necessary services to ensure that content published by the Executive Office of the President (EOP) on publicly-accessible web sites is archived in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA), that information posted on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence is archived in accordance with the PRA, and that all archived information is securely stored and provided to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for historical preservation, in accordance with the PRA.

Here’s where it gets juicy.

2. Scope
The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA maintains a presence, throughout the term of the contract.

[...]

Publicly-accessible sites may include, but are not limited to social networking sites.

I suppose that means blogs would be searched, indexed and stored as well. But wait, there’s more! They’re already doing it.

4. Background
In order to comply with the Presidential Records Act, the White House New Media team is looking for a non personal service contractor to crawl and archive PRA content on all third party sites where the EOP has a presence (i.e. Facebook.com/whitehouse, Twitter.com/whitehouse). Currently, the Government team is capturing the data and content both programmatically (via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from social networks) and manually (through daily screen shots).

If you look back at Obama’s first days as President, he signed Executive Order 13489 [link: PDF] that states that only the records he chooses to be made public will be released. Now he wants to archive everything anyone has to say about him and his administration.

5. Performance Objectives

(G) Capture of comments and publicly-visible tags posted by users on publicly-accessible websites on which an EOP component subject to the PRA maintains a presence. Vendor must be able to either:

(i) Capture all comments posted to a list of websites provided to vendor; or
(ii) Capture a sample of comments posted to a list of websites provided to vendor, according to a sampling

(J) Ability for government employees to tag captures from publicly-accessible websites by arbitrary fields or tags such as office or issue (i.e. OVP or health care).

There is no requirement in the Presidential Records Act for the storage or archiving of non-EOP content. Obama doesn’t care.

Get ready to be tagged.

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