As mentioned here, there was a petition to investigate Chris Dodd for bribery. Well, the White House has spoken: Thank you for signing this petition. We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on Whitehouse.gov. However, consistent with the We the People Terms of Participation and our responses to similar petitions in the past, the White House declines to comment on this petition because it requests a specific law enforcement action. Or to put in another way, you can only petition the government if you've agreed to the Terms of Participation and don't violate them - and requesting that the ...
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012The Fox is Guarding the Hen-house
Friday, December 4th, 2009From a research paper published by some Berkeley researchers: The Obama Administration is considering whether to change policy concerning the use of HTTP cookies on government websites. Currently, government officials require a “compelling need” to use persistent HTTP cookies, and must disclose their use in a privacy policy. In light of this we arbitrarily chose six government websites to determine whether Flash was being used to assign unique values to visitors. Of the 6 government sites we tested, 3 had Flash cookies. Three were set by whitehouse.gov, one of which was labeled, “userId.” Five of these sites used persistent HTTP cookies. Whitehouse.gov disclosed ...