White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules
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.”
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