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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 The federal government has drafted changes to its outdated restrictions on HTTP cookies, and wants the public's input.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.'"
I'm in a bit of a jam, and I need some help from the slashdot community. I was in the men's room stall at work masturbating to porn on my iPhone for four hours a day like I usually do. All of a sudden, a picture of RMS popped up, and I orgasmed so violently that I accidentally punched some random soft buttons on my iPhone. Turns out I inadvertently activated the camera, recorded video of me shooting my hot stinky jizz all over the bathroom walls, and then sent it to comments@whitehouse.gov. I had no idea the iPhone was THAT easy to use! Someone please tell me there's an "Unsend" button...