Planned lifting of ban on 'cookies' called '1984'-style spying effort
Posted: August 17, 2009
1:10 am Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – The Barack Obama administration has announced plans to
lift a government ban on tracking visitors to government websites, and
potentially, collect their personal data through the use of "cookies" –
an effort some suspect may already be in place on White House sites.
A ban on such tracking by the federal government on Internet
users has been in place since 2000, however, the White House Office of
Management and Budget now wants to lift the ban citing a "compelling
need."
In fact, according to the Electronic Privacy and Information
Center, federal agencies have already negotiated agreements and
contracts with social networking sites like Google, YouTube,
SlideShare, Facebook,
AddThis, Blist, Flickr and VIMEO to collect information on visitors for
federal web sites. All of these private companies are known to have
agreements with federal agencies, but the public has never seen them.