Posted on 08/12/2009 5:10:48 PM PDT by Good Ag
A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of tracking cookies by federal government websites should be carefully scrutinized so they don't jeopardize the privacy of people who visit them, groups advocating civil liberties warned Monday.
The American Civil Liberties Union said the proposal, floated July 24 by the White House OMB, or Office of Management and Budget, was a "sea change" that could erode protections that for the past nine years have safeguarded the personal information of millions of people who visit federal websites.
"Without explaining this reversal of policy, the OMB is seeking to allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website," Michael Macleod-Ball, the acting director of the ACLU's Washington legislative office, said in a statement. "Until the OMB answers the multitude of questions surrounding this policy shift, we will continue to raise our strenuous objections."
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One of the panels on fox news was talking about the cookies this morning.
the propaganda media in America is pathetic. I also read a lot from the UK and Asia... this countries media became communist lap dogs for the communist obamanation. I’m glad to read that O’Reilly talked about it.
I’m glad you are posting things like this. We are all needed here. :D
Given that the ACLU is upset over it, I would think if it’s not all over the mainstream media already it will be shortly.
The US press gets upset if you monitor Taliban.
O monitoring American citizens, no big deal.
Guess all of those forms that I used to download from the IRS site plus other info I get from the fed gov will just have to be mailed as hard copies to me now. I’ll just call the agencies and tell them I want paper because I have privacy concerns.
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