December 28, 2005
* NSA Website Uses Cookies Despite Prohibition

AP reports that the NSA website has continued to use cookies to track user access of the site, despite strict prohibitions against such practices:

  • OMB Guidance for Implementing the Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002, September 26, 2003 - Tracking technology prohibitions: agencies are prohibited from using persistent cookies or any other means (e.g., web beacons) to track visitors' activity on the Internet...for a compelling need."

  • Why Get A Warrant?: The President's Admission that He Authorized Warrantless Domestic Surveillance, by Sherry F. Colb

  • Recent links to news and documents related to NSA domestic surveillance