A new Obama administration privacy policy released Friday explains how the government will gather the user data of online visitors to WhiteHouse.gov, mobile apps and social media sites, and it clarifies that online comments, whether tirades or tributes, are in the open domain.

“Information you choose to share with the White House (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as public information,” the new policy says.

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