WhiteHouse.gov Will Continue to Track Users
An AP newswire article by Anick Jesdanun, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:
The White House said Friday its Web site would keep using Internet tracking technologies, deciding that they aren't prohibited after all under 2003 federal privacy guidelines.
The White House's site uses what's known as a Web bug [actually, a cookie -ferg] — a tiny graphic image that's virtually invisible — to keep track anonymously of who's visiting and when. The bug is sent by a server maintained by an outside contractor, WebTrends Inc., and lets the traffic-analysis company know that another person has visited a specific page on the site.
posted by Fergie @ 12/30/2005 02:20:00 PM
1 Comments:
Actually, this is neither a cookie nor a "web bug", it's the same single-pixel image trick that cross-site trackers have used for nigh ten years now. This is Akamaized, but that's the only real difference. Note that if you look at it, it
reports a P3P header of:
P3P: CP="NON DSP COR ADM DEV IVA OTPi OUR LEG"
Bets on whether they understand and are complying?
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