[IP] Re: White House quietly exempts YouTube from cookie privacy rules

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: January 23, 2009 10:05:44 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: 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




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