March 19, 2002
CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report
CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report
A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discontinued marking visitors with a unique identification tag, or "cookie," after a non-profit group complained about the practice. The use of "persistent" cookies at the CIA's Electronic Reading Room (ERR) site violated federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy, according to Public Information Research (PIR), a Texas-based non-profit which reported the practice to the agency Friday.
Posted by rshah at March 19, 2002 12:00 PM