Peter Smith’s Posterous

The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.

Cognitive dissonance on so many levels with this story. There's any number of other entities that crawl and store internet data - from archive.org to social media monitoring services to Google to...