Recovery.Gov Uses Private Marketing Data Collection Service to Track Users (WebTrends)

Recovery.Gov ^ | March 12, 2008

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People should be outraged that they are so blatantly using the implementation of this website for political purposes. The website was first requested and established by OMB before Obama was even inaugurated, even though it wasn't authorized and probably violated standard government domain rules. The White House also uses this premier WebTrends marketing and analytics service (See http://www.whitehouse.gov/includes/webtrends.js).

Is it really appropriate to spend taxpayer money to track viewers of a government website through a private marketing analytics company? Doesn't this indicate the degree to which the Obama White House, as opposed to OMB or any sort of Recovery Board, is really controlling this site?

Yet, of course, this was predictable, given the title of the site and the way it was implemented. But shouldn't the government be using free and open tools for straightforward analytics information? What is the intention here?

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People should be outraged that ...

...that this boob is in charge of anything!

[ChildOfThe60s]

Shapes of things to come..........

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

This will be the least of the spying that can be expected from the Marxist/Communist regime.

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