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White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules
An anonymous reader writes "The new White House website privacy policy promises that the site will not use long-term tracking cookies, complying with a decade old rule prohibiting such user tracking by federal agencies. However, Obama's legal team has quietly exempted YouTube from this rule. Visitors to the official White House blog will receive long-term tracking cookies whenever they surf to a web-page with an embedded YouTube video — even those users that do not click the "play" button. As CNET reports, no other company has been singled out and rewarded with such a waiver."
Next up, a FF extension to take a blacklist of domains and insert random data into cookies that are requested by them. name=LOGIN_INFO content=osamaobamabombnukebananarama
The orbital mind control laser. You know too much.
To be fair, I voted for Obama because his campaign here in Oklahoma promised me cookies would follow if he became President. I guess this is close... I was kind of hoping for chocolate chip.
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Hum.... nuked bananas.... <drool> /Homer
Hmm... naked Bananarama... /me
Smoking is bad for you. Here, we bake it into cookies. You want one?
Your brain is not a computer.
If that's all the he does to pay back his 4th largest contributor, that'd put him in contention for least corruption politician ever.
I don't think shows anything other than Obama's web staff like using YouTube on the White House web site.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
From TFS, it sounds like you may get long-term cookies from whitehouse.gov (regardless of what youtube.com provides) on pages (or paths I suppose; I don't think you can do page-specific cookies) containing embedded youtube videos. It could use some additional clarification for sure.
Naturally, I didn't read TFA either.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
You think that's bad??? I'm still waiting for my CHANGE!!!
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
I said that YouTube was a bad idea early on, because of the discrepancies between YouTube's policies and the policies surrounding government content. You cannot save YouTube videos on your hard drive without violating their TOS. This is another example of the discrepancy. Disturbingly, this administration is not pushing YouTube to modify their policies for the White House channel.
Palm trees and 8
Oh, great. You've slashdotted a whole country.
Yeah I did not know about that change until...just now.
But... change is what Obama promised all along - and now you act surprised? :*P
np: The Whitest Boy Alive - Done With You (Dreams)
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
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