January 23rd, 2009

White House acts to limit YouTube cookie tracking

By Chris Soghoian, CNET News.com

Just 12 hours after this blog highlighted the privacy problems associated with the White House's use of embedded YouTube videos, the Obama team rushed to deploy a technical fix that significantly protects the privacy of many (but not all) of the site's visitors...

This is clearly a step in the right direction--and it is particularly interesting to see that the White House has essentially rolled their own version of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's MyTube privacy tool.

Related Issues: Privacy

[Permalink] [Externalink]