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
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