Government Tracking Your Online Usage
According to the Washington :Post, in August, 2009 the "Obama administration proposed
scaling back the ban on how people use government Internet sites with 'cookies' and other technologies...". This ruling would have allowed extensive collection of private information on every government website. In a special contract, Google was specifically exempted from any ban on collecting information of people using their site.It was later revealed that the government website was having Google YouTube videos, that used tracking cookies, when people tuned in regarding the president's address and other government activities taking place. It was later claimed, that same year, that this practice was being banned.
Coincidentally, only non-third party and government sites were affected by this ban, allowing Google the right to continue these tracking practices legally. Apparently, notification to users that this monitoring was going on was NOT even required, although it was proposed that a subscription cancellation type of "warning" would be issued. Policy also dictated that the use of internet cookies was not a hindrance, but rather an improvement, helping web designers make a better product for their clients.
It's no surprise that Google utilizes internet cookies to track EVERY piece of content it moves throughout it's website. Further still, some websites can even pinpoint your EXACT LOCATION with IP tracking! nobull-ip-tracking.com/41/index.htm is one such website. Government official can, at ANY time, confiscate personal information, such as cellphone records, via Google and other search engines.
Personal phone calls are noted with the number the call originated from, the number called, the date of the call, and additional information. There are records that include any person who has ever made use of their cell phone and it is information that could come back to harm a person in the future if they are not aware of it.
Under Homeland Security Rules "cookies" can be used when there is a "compelling need to gather the data on a site". Apparently this applies to any time, anyone, and any place. Being under the guise of 'big government," everything one does is now under scrutiny and this can be frightening when one thinks about it. If a neighbor, for example, reported someone as 'suspicious' that would immediately put one under suspicion, meaning that all phone calls, e-mails, and any other actions could be monitored.
The Office of Management and Budget Report includes this stipulation, quite clearly. The report was completed ten years ago and continues to be in effect. There haven't been a lot of changes regarding internet privacy and laws surrounding the use of 'cookies,' or personal privacy on the internet, and this leaves anyone who uses the internet open to possibly intense scrutiny.
In this case, technology has gotten ahead of our laws, and it is probably time to reexamine how people's privacy and individual rights can be protected. While it is understandable that the government would want to quickly apprehend criminals and put a stop to any terrorist activity, there are millions of individual citizens whose privacy could be adversely effected and it is time for those people to come together and voice their displeasure. Any policy created ten years ago should be reviewed, especially when it so directly effects the privacy and personal rights of so many people who are making use of technology.
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