EPIC Seeks Government Agreements with Social Networking Companies
<www.epic.org>
EPIC submitted
<http://epic.org/privacy/socialnet/gsa_foia_4-30-09.pdf>
a Freedom of Information Act request to the Government Services
Administration seeking agency records concerning agreements the GSA
negotiated between federal agencies and social networking services,
including Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and Facebook. In the FOIA
request, EPIC is asking for the public release of the contracts and any
legal opinions concerning the application of the Privacy Act of 1974
<http://epic.org/privacy/1974act/>
and Freedom of Information Act
<http://epic.org/open_gov/>
to the services that collect information on citizens.
For more information see EPIC's pages Social Networking
<http://www.epic.org/privacy/socialnet/default.html> , Facebook
<http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/default.html> , and Cloud Computing
<http://epic.org/privacy/cloudcomputing/default.html> . (Apr. 30)
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Mark Perkins MLIS, MCLIP
www.markperkins.info
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