Tag: PRESIDENTIALRECORDSACT

When Google launched Buzz, the service immediately became a lightning rod for criticism from privacy advocates. Many people ended up having their list of most frequent Gmail contacts exposed to the entire Web. One of those people included Andrew McLaughlin, the Deputy White House CTO. This would, of course, be of little concern to anyone, except that McLaughlin's list of most frequently ...

The Presidential Records Act of 1978 ensures public access to government documents so that United States citizens can be aware of the actions of the nation's highest office. According to the Washington Times, the government is asserting that the same act enables the White House to have access to statements made by the public. More specifically, the Act apparently allows the government to monitor ...

The question on everyone's mind is has Barack Obama given up on Twitter? Okay, not everyone's mind, maybe, but we're sure someone besides ourselves and Paul Boutin at the New York Times is wondering. Our first tech-enabled president, who built so much of his support using tools like Twitter, has seemingly disappeared from the service. Since joining Twitter in April of 2007, Obama, or at least ...