Hmmmm. I don't use Twitter so I'm at a disadvantage. But would this be different than declaring all e-mail to be in the public interest? And how do they get to sign 'an agreement' to do that? Has the user agreement always included this potential provision??
DAF On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com>wrote: > ** > In related news today: > > ============= Included Stuff Follows ============= > A Voice Crying in the Wilderness > > This story was linked to on the Drudge Report this morning, and I was > able to read it earlier, but I suspect that the site is overloaded as it no > longer loads: > *Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive - > FederalNewsRadio.com*<http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=247&sid=2658996> > > The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that > will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the > library's repository of historical documents. > > "We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of > servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out > and declared to be public," said Bill Lefurgy, the digital initiatives > program manager at the library's national digital information > infrastructure and preservation program. The archives don't contain tweets > that users have protected, but everything else — billions and billions of > tweets — are there. > > A Google Search for *"Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter > archive"*<https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=Library+of+Congress+to+receive+entire+Twitter+archive&btnG=Google+Search>shows > the story has been copied everywhere, so if you can't read it on the > original site, you can read about it elsewhere. > > ============= Included Stuff Ends ============= > Seen here: http://vozclam.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-895-3270 / 1-520-290-5038 > Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- David _____________________ * * I just had my vision checked. My hindsight was 20/20. My foresight is legally blind. ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
