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Re: White House quietly exempts YouTube from cookie privacy rules
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:13:50 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Date: January 23, 2009 10:05:44 AM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] White House quietly exempts YouTube from cookie privacy rules
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:18:55 -0500 David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
While such technologies clearly exist, the vast majority of users of the WH ste will have no knowledge of them and no idea what to do. So while we, the knowledgeable, will preserve our privacy, the public MAY not djf
To underscore your point, even Lauren's post omitted mention of Flash cookies, which can't be deleted by the browser per se, only by Flash: http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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