White House Wants Cookie Feedback
NextGov reports that Bev Godwin, director of online resources and interagency development for the White House new media team, asked the public on Friday to weigh in on the decade-old federal policy that does not allow agencies to use persistent cookies on their Web sites. The reason has to do with privacy, but it makes it harder for agencies to create Web services like those in the private sector. The White House wants the public to tell them what they think. White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and Michael Fitzpatrick, associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, provided details on the administration's Open Government blog and the Office of Science and Technology Policy's blog.
OMB is considering a three-tiered approach to the use of Web tracking technologies on government sites: (1) Single-session technologies, which track users over a single session and do not maintain tracking data over multiple sessions or visits. (2) Multi-session technologies for use in analytics, which track users over multiple sessions purely to gather data to analyze Web traffic statistics. (3) Multi-session technologies for use as persistent identifiers, which track users over multiple visits with the intent of remembering data, settings, or preferences unique to that visitor for purposes beyond what is needed for analytics. Comments submitted by Aug. 10 will be taken into consideration.
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