Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:12:14 -0400
From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: DOD still misuses "cookies"
To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)


From: "Patrice McDermott" <patricem@ombwatch.org>
To: "US e-government policy listserv" <e-gov@lyris.ombwatch.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:48:32 -0400
Subject: DOD still misuses "cookies"
Reply-to: "Patrice McDermott" <patricem@ombwatch.org>

More from the Sen. Thompson IG audit of federal web sites:

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0611/web-dod06-11-01.asp

DOD still misuses "cookies"

BY Diane Frank June 11, 2001

Many military Web sites still collect personal information from
visitors because Defense Department officials remain unaware of
privacy policies and the department fails to hold the site managers
accountable for not complying, according to an inspector general
report.

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CIO site caught with "cookies"

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0604/web-cookies-06-08-01.asp


BY Christopher J. Dorobek and Diane Frank
June 8, 2001

The redesigned Web site for the CIO Council had to be pulled off-line
today after Federal Computer Week notified officials the site was
using persistent cookies, a violation of government privacy rules.

...

OMB, which leads the CIO Council, had no specific comment today on
the council's Web site. However, OMB communications director
Christopher Ullman said that privacy is an important issue for
President Bush and the administration will continue to focus on this
area.

Most observers and privacy advocates were struck by the irony that
the federal government's leading technology policy organization was
caught with its hand in the Web cookie jar.

...


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