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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Vimeo by Obama · 2009-01-22 08:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I was going to use Vimeo to host the vids, but got overrided. Frustrations.
Re:OH NOES! PANIC! by gEvil+(beta) · 2009-01-22 08:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Exactly. Get over it people. Set your browser to not allow cookies from YouTube. BFD.

Exactly. If you're really concerned about it, set your browser to 1) not accept third-party cookies and 2) delete cookies on exit. You can set Firefox (and probably Opera) to keep certain cookies if you want to remain logged into certain sites all the time.

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