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White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules

Posted by timothy on from the but-other-than-this-one-thing dept.

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."

7 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by Obama · · Score: 3, Funny

    The orbital mind control laser. You know too much.

  2. Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by AioKits · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:whitehouse.gov by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hum.... nuked bananas.... <drool> /Homer

  4. Re:whitehouse.gov by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm... naked Bananarama... /me

  5. Re:They can't control external websites by FiloEleven · · Score: 4, Funny

    Smoking is bad for you. Here, we bake it into cookies. You want one?

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  6. Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by sheph · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think that's bad??? I'm still waiting for my CHANGE!!!

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  7. One more reason for them to not use YouTube by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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