Gov Considers Reversing Policy on Tracking Citizens' Computers

For the past nine years, the government has been forbidden to track cookies from its users— you know, the bits of information that a computer transmits to a website when it visits that website. Now, they want to start tracking that info, in a move that alarms even the ACLU. From Michael Macleod-Ball, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:

Without explaining this reversal of policy, the OMB is seeking to allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website. Until the OMB answers the multitude of questions surrounding this policy shift, we will continue to raise our strenuous objections.

In the words of Ace of Spades: "Tracking Terrorists on the Internet: Bad. Tracking American Citizens on the Internet: Good."