schachterrific!

Its not everyday that I get to blog about the ACLU and Huffington Post on the same day. Both organizations stand on the opposite side of the centrist line from where I stand and neither is a favorite of mine. Yet first I find the HuffPo raising the alarm about the administration in bed with BigPharma, and now this from the ACLU website:

The American Civil Liberties Union submitted comments today to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) opposing its recent proposal to reverse current federal policy and allow the use of web tracking technologies, like cookies, on federal government websites. Cookies can be used to track an Internet user’s every click and are often linked across multiple websites; they frequently identify particular people.

So now Uncle O’s Internet Intelligence Group is looking to track people who visit government web sites. 1984 is here, folks. Just arrived a little late….