Feds Seek Input On Cookie Policy For Government Web Sites

suraj.sun sends along this quote from Information Week: "The government wants to use cookies to offer more personalized web sites to citizens and better analytics to Webmasters. ... The federal government has drafted changes to its outdated restrictions on HTTP cookies, and wants the public's input. Under the plan, detailed in a blog post by federal CIO Vivek Kundra and... Michael Fitzpatrick, federal agencies would be able to use cookies as long as their use is lawful, citizens can opt out of being tracked, notice of the use of cookies is posted on the Web site, and Web sites don't limit access to information for those who opt out. ... The Office of Management and Budget is considering three separate tiers of cookie usage that will likely have different restrictions for each, based on privacy risks. The first tier of sites would use single-session technologies, the second multi-session technologies for use in analytics only, and the third for multi-session cookies that are used to remember data or settings 'beyond what is needed for web analytics.'"

Comments

Oreos

[oldhack]

For variety of reasons. :-)

Re:Oreos

[basementman]

Oreos are a symbol of black power and the racist ideals Obama is trying to indoctrinate our wonderful nation with. The pure Aryan nation is represented by clean white filling of the Oreo, with the other less pure races as the hard cookie, squeezing on both sides ever last bit of culture the white man has left. We must rise against and elect Vanilla Wafers as or government cookie. White power! /s

Content-transfer-encoding

[FooAtWFU]

Content-transfer-encoding: chocolate-chunked

Privacy

[nurb432]

Cookies are evil in the first place. Tho they do taste good.