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Feds May Soon Be Allowed To Use Cookies

Posted by timothy on from the it-looks-like-you're-building-a-bomb dept.

fast66 writes "The White House may lift its policy barring federal Web sites from tracking users' online behavior. In place since 2000, the cookie policy issued by the Office of Management and Budget was intended to protect citizen privacy but has sparked criticism — even from White House officials — for hampering citizen outreach. On Friday, Bev Godwin, the director of online resources and interagency development at the White House's new media office, blogged on the White House Web site, 'We want to use cookies for good, not evil' — and invited the public to comment on cookies through various online channels, including the Office of Science and Technology Policy blog."

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  1. Well... by Rewind · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Cookie monster will most certainly be displeased...

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  2. We're donediddily done for by hugi · · Score: 5, Funny

    yup, now our privacy is completely gone. I heard ECHELON is mostly based on cookies.

  3. Whew, that was a close one by Hojima · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for telling me this. You see, I am an inept and computer illiterate terrorist. We all are, since none of us are smart enough to get an education. Hell, I barely managed to read this web page, and all my dumb terrorist buddies simply couldn't. We go to www.I-AM-A-TERRORIST.com all the time, and if I didn't get the heads-up, we would all be in jail now. You guys were smart to allocate resources to this sure-fire way to catch us. Oh well, time to get back to using the internet for evil, not good.

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