Friday, August 7, 2009

Obama track added to Obama snitch

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/06/white-house-to-open-gate-on-tracking-web-browsing/

White House to Open Gate on Tracking Web Browsing
A policy change under review by the
White House would allow the federal government
to begin tracking Internet traffic
on its Web sites.
Since 2000, government Web sites have
been banned from using cookies, which are
identifying codes collected when a computer
visits a Web site. When the computer returns,
the Web site remembers the previous
visits. The ban was enacted as a privacy
protection. Since then, using cookies has
become more common, and two weeks ago
the White House announced plans to overturn
the policy.
Even with the ban on cookies, there have
been some government attempts at tracking
Web browsing. The New York Times’
posting on the proposed lifting of the ban
reminded us that both the National Security
Agency in 2005 and the CIA in 2001 were
caught, as it were, with their hands in the
cookie jar. And Computer World noted all
the way back in January that YouTube
videos embedded on the redesigned White
House Web site had been using the videosharing
site’s tracking cookies.
The White House science and technology
blog, on which the planned policy shift was
announced, says the shift is no more threatening
than using a shopping cart to purchase
items online — a Web site feature
that requires cookies. The view that using
cookies is already quite common on the Internet
is not the best argument —
Amazon.com doing something doesn’t
mean that whitehouse.gov should do the
same. But the other details released, including
promises of improving the usability
of outdated government Web sites and the
promise of a clear opt-out method that
won’t cut off access to the sites, makes the
policy shift more acceptable.
Of course, if you don’t want government
Web sites using cookies, opting out once
the policy is enacted is not the only option.
Until Aug. 10, the White House science blog
has invited users to post public comments
about the proposal.
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1 comment:

Reaganite Independent said...

Now the DNC is deploying AFL-CIO palookas while hypocritically dismissing Obamacare opponents as paid shills -even running disengenuous TV ads to slander them- while SanFranNan is halucinating and seeing imaginary Swastikas.

This should make clear to anyone just what these far-left elitists think of your opinion.

Note that whenever Obama, Emanuel, or Gibbs are asked about why polls show SO many people oppose their misguided Cap-n-Trade and Obamacare proposals, they ALWAYS segue-right-into “we need to educate the public…”.

LOL- save your breath- Constitutionally-aware patriots don’t take lectures from Marxists.

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