Obama Administration Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears

[Patranus]

The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...R2009081002743_pf.html

Interesting....

Cookies? I couldn't care less.
"Other Technologies"? Need more specifics...spyware?

 

[retrospooty]

You just scour the internet daily googling away looking for anything negative to post dont you? LOL . Obama won, get over it.

bitter much?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: retrospooty
You just scour the internet daily googling away looking for anything negative to post dont you? LOL . Obama won, get over it.

bitter much?

OMG, you're suppressing debate, you free-speech hating liberal.

 

[Uhtrinity]

On "government Internet sites" ... how is that invasion of privacy?

 

[moparacer]

Just dont click the box that says "this is done without sending any information to the government" and you will be fine.

O K

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: Uhtrinity
On "government Internet sites" ... how is that invasion of privacy?

Does that include GM's website? Being government owned and all..... The more companies government takes over the more difficult it'll be NOT to be on "government Internet sites".

 

[Cuda1447]

More government power.

 

[TruePaige]

Please don't completely disregard concerns based on that article/poster comments.

I'm going to leave an outside view article here and let the posters make sense of it as they will.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...ral-web-privacy-policy

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Patranus

The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...R2009081002743_pf.html

Interesting....

Cookies? I couldn't care less.
"Other Technologies"? Need more specifics...spyware?

Persistent cookies, especially Flash cookies can be a problem. Don't discount them.

 

[her209]

You mean they don't keep logs of IP addresses that visit the websites already?

 

[First]

lmao. The OP doesn't know that cookies aren't the only things used to track people on the web? :laugh:

 

[BarrySotero]

A s much as I dislike the WH crew I'm not disposed to resent them for web cookies. Just empty files/cookies/history after visiting site - or better yet don't go there unless on proxy - or don't go there at all. It's not like they will listen to you anyway