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Beet.TV: White House on YouTube -- Right Wingers See Google Conspiracy, while others Fear Cookies.....and McCain-Palin Campaign is Sill Live on Blip!
ReadWriteWeb: White House Continues to Give Preferential Treatment to Google: Exempts YouTube from Privacy Rules
Technology Liberation Front: The Whitehouse.gov-YouTube Cookie Kerfuffle
White House on YouTube -- Right Wingers See Google Conspiracy, while others Fear Cookies.....and McCain-Palin Campaign is Sill Live on Blip!
Beet.TV —
... , we saw the YouTube clip of the President Barack Obama's Inauguration speech. Looks good. But we wonder if all the White House videos will be hosted by YouTube. Sure, YouTube has massive reach and scale but there are issues about YouTube's tracking of cookies and privacy, as Chris Soghoian pointed out on CNET News.com this morning. Also, the content will be hosted on YouTube servers, not government ones. ...
White House Continues to Give Preferential Treatment to Google: Exempts YouTube from Privacy Rules
ReadWriteWeb —
... why the White House was giving preferential treatment to Google's YouTube. As CNET's Chris Soghoian points out today, the federal government has very strict rules about using persistent cookies on government sites. However, the new ...
The Whitehouse.gov-YouTube Cookie Kerfuffle
Technology Liberation Front —
Chris Sogohian called out a problem and now takes credit for a fix to the way the Whitehouse.gov Web site delivered third-party cookies - specifically YouTube cookies.
The use of YouTube videos on the President’s site is a Web 2.0-ish improvement, which is welcome, but embedding videos meant that YouTube was placing cookies on the computers of visitors to Whitehouse.gov and - as a natural result - collecting records of people’s visits to that site.
Things got weird when the Whitehouse.gov privacy policy exempted YouTube cookies ...
Google cookies are yummy, says White House
p2pnet news —
... It’s, “quietly exempted YouTube from strict rules relating to the use of cookies on federal agency Web sites,” says CNet News, going on »»» ...
Barack Obama in a ‘Googley way’
p2pnet news —
... quoted the Indian Express as saying shortly before the elections.
And, “Perhaps the biggest threat to Google’s increasing dominance of internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google’s broadening reach is giving it unchecked power,” said WAToday.
Yesterday, “President Barack Obama’s new administration has granted a rare privilege to Do No Evil Google,” said p2pnet, quoting CNet News.
It’s, “quietly exempted YouTube from strict rules relating to the use of ...
Obama team’s Google cookie fix
p2pnet news —
... CNet post said Obama’s new administration had, “quietly exempted YouTube from strict rules relating to the use of cookies on federal agency Web sites,” continuing »»» ...
White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
Ars Technica —
... It's nice to see that someone at the White House is reading the work of privacy maven Chris Soghoian. Less than a day after Chris drew attention to a special YouTube exemption in the ...
