White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules 235
An anonymous reader writes "The new White House website privacy policy promises that the site will not use long-term tracking cookies, complying with a decade old rule prohibiting such user tracking by federal agencies. However, Obama's legal team has quietly exempted YouTube from this rule. Visitors to the official White House blog will receive long-term tracking cookies whenever they surf to a web-page with an embedded YouTube video — even those users that do not click the "play" button. As CNET reports, no other company has been singled out and rewarded with such a waiver."
Re:whitehouse.gov (Score:1, Funny)
Next up, a FF extension to take a blacklist of domains and insert random data into cookies that are requested by them. name=LOGIN_INFO content=osamaobamabombnukebananarama
Re:OH NOES! PANIC! (Score:3, Funny)
The orbital mind control laser. You know too much.
Re:OH NOES! PANIC! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:whitehouse.gov (Score:4, Funny)
Hum.... nuked bananas.... <drool> /Homer
Re:whitehouse.gov (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm... naked Bananarama... /me
Re:They can't control external websites (Score:5, Funny)
Smoking is bad for you. Here, we bake it into cookies. You want one?
Re:The only reason (Score:3, Funny)
If that's all the he does to pay back his 4th largest contributor, that'd put him in contention for least corruption politician ever.
I don't think shows anything other than Obama's web staff like using YouTube on the White House web site.
Re:This is disturbing... (Score:3, Funny)
From TFS, it sounds like you may get long-term cookies from whitehouse.gov (regardless of what youtube.com provides) on pages (or paths I suppose; I don't think you can do page-specific cookies) containing embedded youtube videos. It could use some additional clarification for sure.
Naturally, I didn't read TFA either.
Re:OH NOES! PANIC! (Score:5, Funny)
One more reason for them to not use YouTube (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, great. You've slashdotted a whole country.
Re:They can't control external websites (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah I did not know about that change until...just now.
But... change is what Obama promised all along - and now you act surprised? :*P
np: The Whitest Boy Alive - Done With You (Dreams)
Re:OH NOES! PANIC! (Score:3, Funny)
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(well unless you're in Europe).