White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @08:26AM 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."

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Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by AioKits · 2009-01-22 08:41 · 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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Re:They can't control external websites by FiloEleven · 2009-01-22 09:06 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by sheph · 2009-01-22 09:42 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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