DISQUS

Tim · 3 years ago

I dunno, cookies are pretty innocuous, and I'm not sure one what basis a private business would be fined for using cookies on its web site. Certainly, if there's a federal law restricting how federal agencies use cookies, they should obey it, but this was more likely an honest mistake by the agencies' webmasters than some kind of sinister plan to spy on their customers.

After all, all you can really tell from a cookie is who's visited your own website. (or in cases of cookies run by third parties, other sites using the same cookie) It's hard to see what nefarious use could be made of, say, a list of all the times I've visited the Treasury Department's web site.
Ã?ÃÂ©Ã?ÃÂ©Ã?Ã¢??Ã?ÃÂ© · 3 years ago

if there's a federal law restricting how federal agencies use cookies, they should obey it, but this was more likely an honest mistake by the agencies' webmasters than some kind of sinister plan to spy on their customers