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Feds Saving All Tweets Forever On Massive Database

Dec. 6, 2011 2:42pm

Watch what you Tweet, because the government will be able to retrieve it for years– or decades– to come, according to a new report.

Feds Saving All Tweets On Massive Database

That’s the lesson you can take from the Library of Congress’ mandate to collect anything that may have long-term historical interest, says Federal News Radio.

Most digital data has at least a theoretical expiration under law, such as ISP browsing history. But tweets, it seems, will live forever.

Bill Lefurgy, digital initiatives program manager at the Library of Congress national digital information infrastructure and preservation program, made the government’s policy on tweet collection pretty clear:

“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.”

So protected (private) tweets are apparently not collected, but those placed in the public domain — billions and billions of tweets — will be stored in huge capacity servers.

It’s already established government policy that the National Archives must preserve Tweets, emails and other electronic communications as  ”government documents.” Given that intra-governmental communication is increasingly dominated by digital dissemination, this makes sense.

But the National Archives handles official government materials, whereas the Library of Congress  has a much broader mission– which now apparently covers anything anyone chooses to tweet out to the world.

“We’re basically in the same situation as the National Archives, only on a much larger scale,” Lefurgy said . “We tend to have a much larger perspective in terms of what we collect.”

Plans are already in place to use the massive vaults of Tweets for “Data mining” purposes– whatever that means.

(H/T: Drudge)

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Comments (118)

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  • Morris
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:53pm

    America,Don,t you think that this is a Invasion of our privacy,Here goes is this the start of this
    Dictator Obama destroying our 1-st Amendment???
    This Dictatorship of Barack Hussein Obama and his complete Administration are treating
    “We The People’,The American Citizens as if we are all Terrorist, But yet we cannot call a
    Islamic Muslim Terrorist, a Terrororist???
    Dictator Obama and Hillary Clinton are also working with the United Nations on taking away our
    2-nd Amendment, They want to take our Guns away from all Americans!

    Dictator Barack Hussein Obama and his Administration call watching and saving all of our TWEETE,
    a good thing for the security of our Country, They call it “DATA MINING”, Is this not a invasion of our privacy, our 1-st Amendment?
    You can also bet that they are saving all of our E-Mails also?
    This Dictatorship of Barack Hussein Obama and his Corrupt Anti-American Godless Administration are working
    on turning our America into a Marxist, Communist, Socialist Country run by a Dictator sitting in our
    Whitehouse!
    Dictator Obama is working every day with Saudi Arabia,”CAIR” The Washington DC Islamic Muslim
    Barbaric Satan Cult of Islam,and the Muslim Brotherhood to take over our America!
    “We The People” Must stop this Corrupt Anti-American Godless Administration, They are out to destroy everything that we Americans have fought and died for,and Obama wants to destroy
    our America and our American way of life!

    Impeach This Muslim Dictat

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    • KrishnaDas
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 4:07pm

      You know, I’m not an Obama supporter at all, but you do realize that it’s not just Obama and the dems who enable this sort of thing? How many times do republicans vote for and allow our rights to be violated in the name of fighting terrorism? Start looking at this without partisan glasses and look at it instead with anti-statist glasses.

      Ron Paul 2012

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    • caveman74
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 7:34pm

      2 words…patriot act. Both sides of the Isle seem to hate constitutional freedom for we the people

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  • recoveringneocon
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Hmmm, Which candidate would be against this?

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  • stloocardsfan
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:46pm

    Oh good, I guess I can expect the black suvs to be making more frequent passes in front of my house now.

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  • gbrules
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:45pm

    the end of privacy.

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  • right-wing-waco
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:45pm

    Do you really want to pizz off the powers in charge… Encode your messages and emails. Make up your own code or get PGP.

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  • gbrules
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:43pm

    the end of privacy

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    gbrules  
  • 4xeverything
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:41pm

    Isn’t that nice!? Your descendant runs for the presidency in 2200 and the opposing side brings up that his/her great great great grandparent once “tweeted” that …(fill in the blank). So happy that I don’t use Twitter, but then again, who’s to say that they don’t do that with every website?

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  • The Catbird
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:40pm

    This is the most corrupt, evil and godless regime in the history of our Republic. The trials should be convened at once on 1/21/2012.

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    • avenger
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 4:29pm

      newt or gingrich will only store it for 100 years. ****……

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  • blaaaaackwoman
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:38pm

    Of course everything, EVERYTHING, written here is logged and analyzed by guys making $200,000 a year to spy on people. Nice job if you ask me.

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  • kurtnut
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:34pm

    I know its been said before, but imagine if this happened on Bush’s watch.

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  • code green
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:33pm

    You forget. They ARE the authority. They don’t need no stinkin constitution man.
    This is why I don’t “tweet”, use facebook, or text. Not because I am doing anything wrong. It is just kind of a screw you big sis thing.

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  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:29pm

    When will you republicans wake up? We live in a police state. Our goverment is outta control.

    Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!

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    WAKEUPUSA2012  
    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:42pm

      Well said and I agree. This is just another example of wasteful spending by the government. Stop voting for the progressives in both parties.

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    • rdub76
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Inasmuch as they are public tweets it’s not really an invasion of privacy. However I agree that it is paranoia by the govt and another way for them to track people. I’m sure they can see a lot and have at least some resources charged with reading this very website right now. As far as it being a Dem v. Repub. thing forget it they all salivate at the mere mention of some new police state tactic.

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  • CatB
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:24pm

    Also .. don’t forget they are trying to make “snail mail” obsolete .. instead of competing the are retreating.

    TEA!

    2012 any one but Obama and his thugs!

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    CatB  
    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:32pm

      It is all about control. Without regular mail, you will HAVE to autopay (good luck disputing a wrong bill – they already have your money) etc. etc.

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      IMPEACHBHO  
  • 762x51
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:14pm

    да товарищ , what did you expect? After all those late night booty call tweets have GREAT historical significance, or could there be a darker motive from our government? I wonder which is more likely?

    I have never had a “social networking” account and never will.

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  • ThankBabyJesus
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:11pm

    History in the making.

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    ThankBabyJesus  
  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:06pm

    I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.

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  • MaxineH20Sux
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:03pm

    I ended my FB account a while ago and I never had a twitter account either. Why would they even want to do this though unless they will use it for the wrong purpose?

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Everything we post here, posts on Google.
      I can google your Blaze name and read every statement you have made here at the Blaze.

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      ProbIemSoIver  
  • ImMadAsHell
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:03pm

    Anyone wonder Y my Nick here is “IMMADASHELL”??? I’m sick of this crap

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    ImMadAsHell  
  • Christianmandoad
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:01pm

    I’ve been trying to get my first tweet from twitter, but they only hold onto the last 3200. Maybe I can get it from the Feds.

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  • PPMStudios
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:59pm

    Yeah but, it’ll take more than this to shut Alec Baldwin up…..

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    PPMStudios  
    • biohazard23
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Unfortunately, nothing will shut that guy up. Well, maybe a muffin shoved into his pie hole would stifle the verbal diarrhea for a moment but he’s gotta swallow at some point….

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  • NoRoomForSocialismHere
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:58pm

    They dont have a right, let history be history not a data bank on citizens. We know the ones that need to be watched

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:56pm

    And soon enough they will be using it for extortion, control and what may come for those who oppose the government and wish only to be free. Remember information is power, and who controls the info has the power.

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    • Shasta
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:25pm

      Too late, we are all on their list already.

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      Shasta  
    • CatB
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Yes .. remember back in the days .. when schools actualy taught? We were told the first thing you did in a government takeover was to take over the radio and tv transmission stations. Now it is the internet.

      TEA!

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      CatB  
  • 4-The-Truth
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:53pm

    Big Brother is watching you now with a lot better technology than they had in 1984.

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    • 762x51
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:16pm

      Orwell would crap his chaps if he saw the technology BB is using against the population today.

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      762x51  
    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:24pm

      Is it no wonder ?
      Look at the back of your dollar bill people. See the “illuminated” all-seeing eye?
      Is there anything American about it? NO !!!
      The only thing American about a federal reserve note is the portrait of an ex-president and the name
      ‘United States of America’, otherwise it represents the federal reserve PRIVATE BANK and it’s owners ( the global elite – the all seeing eye ) is it also coincidence that the “Eagle” on the great seal looks exactly like the rising phoenix in the Rothchild’s family crest ?
      Cameras covering every inch of interstate system.
      ‘Tag readers’ ( High-tech system to register EVERY vehicle that passes within the radius of a detector ) on police vehicles and on the interstate systems, that track you anytime you pass one.
      1984 is here.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:49pm

    I’ve never had a twitter account, so I guess the feds don’t know I exist.

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    • JRook
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:52pm

      And this is the logical extension of the unconstitutional Patriot Act. Don’t tell me Bush and the republicans aren’t big brother government supporters.

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    • Chappy123
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Get over the Bush thing.

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    • 762x51
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:20pm

      JROOK – Bush and the Republicans are merely Progressive lite, they are Democraps that masquerade as something they are not. They are NOT Conservatives, that has been proven over and over. again. Yours and other lib tirades against them are hysterically fun to those of us that know and understand the difference because you may as well be raging at yourself in the mirror. I recommend auto-flagellation treatment to cure what ails you.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on December 6, 2011 at 2:46pm

    Imagine the outrage from the left if George W Bush tried something like this.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:17pm

      I’m not a Bush basher by any means but he did give us the patriot act,the biggest threat to our liberty in many years.

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