The Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed that the federal government install cookies on its web sites to track who looks at what.Federal CIO Vivek Kundra made the proposal last month in the Federal Register.
According to the ACLU, "Since 2000, it has been the policy of the federal government not to use such technology. But the OMB is now seeking to change that policy and is considering the use of cookies for tracking web visitors across multiple sessions and storing their unique preferences and surfing habits. Though this is a major shift in policy, the announcement of this program consists of only a single page from the federal register that contains almost no detail."
See White House response on its Office of Science and Technology Policy blog.
"Our main goal in revisiting the ban on using persistent cookies on Federal websites is to bring the federal government into the 21st century. Consistent with this Administration’s commitment to making government more open and participatory, we want federal agencies to be able to provide the same user- friendly, dynamic, and citizen-centric websites that people have grown accustomed to using when they shop or get news online or communicate through social media networks, while also protecting people’s privacy. "
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