Macon Phillips posted this on the The White House blog: Recently, we have seen a few stories questioning how the Presidential Records Act (PRA) intersects with Americans’ use of modern social media, like Facebook and Twitter, to communicate with the White House. Before I address some specific issues raised in these stories, let me give…
Cybersecurity Plan Doesn’t Breach Employee Privacy, Administration Says
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration has agreed with its predecessor that a special surveillance program to monitor federal Internet traffic for malicious intrusions does not violate the privacy rights of government employees or others they communicate with. By notifying government employees logging on to their computers that they have “no reasonable expectation of privacy”…
Facebook ‘suck sites’ to be tested in court
Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes. “Don’t be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?!” (sic) But two months later,…
2nd man charged in Florida sex-video voyeurism case
Karen Voyles reports: A Fort White man was being held at the Alachua County jail Friday for allegedly videotaping another man having sex with a woman who was unaware she was being recorded. Keniel Luis Alvarez, 21, who identified himself as a promoter, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with video voyeurism, scheming to defraud,…