Home » post » More about persistent cookies and privacy

Our mission

Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research.

More about persistent cookies and privacy

Chris Dorobek of Federal Computer Week has done a bit of investigation into the status of government web sites’ compliance with privacy policies and reports his findings and links to other stories here:

Hand in the cookie jar by Chris Dorobek, December 30, 2005, The FCW Insider.

He quotes a story (White House to investigate contractor’s Web tracking By Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press, December 30, 2005) in the Boston Globe about use of “web bugs” on the White House web site.

See also: NSA used persistent web-cookies.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Archives