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White House exempts YouTube from privacy rules
Update: 12 hours after posting this story, the White House (partially) reversed itself. The rather dubious YouTube-only waiver from federal Web privacy rules has been maintained, but the White House Web site has been updated to limit the exposure of visitors to YouTube's tracking efforts to ...
Obama Will Get His Blackberry
marcambinder.theatlantic.com — President Barack Obama  is going to get his blackberry. On Monday, a government agency that the Obama... administration  -- but that is probably the National Security Agency -- added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package.... and ... (more) Obama Will Get His Blackberry
Technology's White House of Horrors [Whiners]
Technology's White House of Horrors [Whiners]
valleywag.gawker.com — Staffers plucked from Obama's campaign operation, used to cutting-edge technology, are finding the White House to be... a Mac-free technological museum. In other words, they're learning to work like the... (more) Technology's White House of Horrors [Whiners]
White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
arstechnica.com — It's nice to see that someone at the White House is reading the work of privacy maven... Chris Soghoian. Less than a day after Chris drew attention to a special YouTube exemption in the privacy policy for WhiteHouse.gov—permitting ... (more) White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
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White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
Ars Technica — ... It's nice to see that someone at the White House is reading the work of privacy maven Chris Soghoian. Less than a day after Chris drew attention to a special YouTube exemption in the ...

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