Cacheing the presidential cache
December 11, 2007 11:23 AM
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I know that if a President (U.S.) were to send/receive emails, that those would be considered government documents, subject to retention policies, archiving/disclosure, etc. What about all the other online stuff?
With each new Administration it becomes more likely that a President will be looking at web pages, sending/receiving SMS messages, posting to forums (well, maybe not), etc. Must these records be retained? Will future historians be entitled to see President Obama's browser history files? Will Presidential laptops/browsers/Blackberries be equipped with keystroke capture utilities? Or is there just no consensus yet on whether/how to retain these?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders to computers & internet (4 comments total)
posted by Ironmouth at 11:29 AM on December 11, 2007