Saturday, April 6, 2013

Hill staff rages as LegiStorm gets personal

April 6, 2013

By KATIE GLUECK 

The Congress-focused research organization LegiStorm set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill this week as some staffers learned that their personal Twitter accounts would appear on the site.

LegiStorm on Wednesday publicized the tool StormFeed, a “real-time, full-text searchable access to every official press release and official tweet from Capitol Hill plus the tweets of thousands of congressional staffers,” according to a release. It’s a page available for members of the subscription service LegiStorm Pro.


As staffers learned about StormFeed, some discovered other detailed, personal information listed on the site...

More at POLITICO


No comments: