Obama could lose right to email
Monday, November 17, 2008
Although president-elect Barack Obama is surely waiting on tenterhooks to get his foot into the White House, he may be loath to leave the world of email behind, the New York Times has noted.
The paper points out that under the Presidential Records Act, it is likely that Obama will be forced to surrender his right to email in accordance with public disclosure rules.
Obama will not be the first president to come to terms with entering office without the aid of email, as George W Bush faced the same predicament in 2000.
"Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace," said Bush, prior to entering the White House.
However, while the NY Times reports that Obama particularly may find the transition difficult, ZenBe blogger Tom Alison has noted that the email archiving scandal surrounding the current administration prominently underscores the danger of using email in high public office.
The email archiving debacle centered around the fact that emails were not immediately available to the public as they were hosted by a third party vendor.
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