A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking biometricupdate.com

America.gov launches with a privacy pledge as its Login.gov authentication layer raises questions over a persistent browser identifier and analytics tracking.

30 points•paimapi•about 12 hours ago•16 comments•

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ape4about 11 hours ago

Of course, America.gov uses "SI". From its FAQ: America.gov uses SI to find and explain information from official government sources. SI can make mistakes, so check the sources included with each answer before making an important decision. To report a problem, select the feedback button below the answer and describe what was incorrect or out of date.

kajmanabout 10 hours ago

This should be updated. It appears they've removed the regex triggered easter eggs, and it's well known that a Super Intelligence system is a combination of off the shelf LLM and hand written regex cases.

Or hand-prompted, more likely.

actionfromafarabout 11 hours ago

Shit Intelligence?

wholinator2about 10 hours ago

Supreme Idiocy, Superego Incinerator, Still Incomplete...

VCFundedGenYerabout 10 hours ago

Sports Illustrated often makes mistakes.

treetalkerabout 9 hours ago

Saffron Impersonator

neuronexmachinaabout 9 hours ago

Slop Induction

bsoqkabout 10 hours ago

If this is the worst thing they’ve found in that portal…

ukusormusabout 11 hours ago

Most browsers cap cookies' max lifetime to 400 days or less these days

plucabout 11 hours ago

Never accept cookies from strangers.

Dweditabout 11 hours ago

I mean 20 year cookies make sense for a logon cookie, but not something given out to guests.

verandaguyabout 11 hours ago

Why do they make sense as logon cookies?

EGregabout 11 hours ago

Why not?

JSR_FDEDabout 11 hours ago

The “SI” apparently disagrees

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