Cookie Monster!

Your World with Neil Cavuto

It seems now that the White House is changing the rules by trying to make it easier to track you when you visit federal websites.

Robert Siciliano; Security Expert, says "These cookies track the computer uses behaviors, what they like, dislike, buy. They can record username and password they store this info via their website from your browsers. They want us to have cookies now. Cookies closest cousin is spyware, Cookies aren't spyware but they are very close. And as we know spyware can be malicious it keeps everything we do. Now since 2000 privacy advocate have gotten governments to agreed not to implant cookies on our browsers but now they are changing their tune. Privacy advocates are concern that if we allow cookies it could merge into spyware eventually."

Whats the purpose of doing this?

"What they are trying to accomplish here is that they are trying to get to know the public a little better. It seems that they have a relationship with Google and there might be some payback going on and from there Google tracks us and the Obama administration wants a piece of that. Google has a lot of influence in Washington, they throw a lot of money around and they are on whitehouse.gov so whats next."

Judge Andrew Napolitano; Fox Senior Judicial Analyst "Well I think his concerns are coorect and here is why because when Nixon used the FBI and CIA and civiilan clad military to take pictures of people during anti-war protests during the 70s, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional and after Nixon left office the Congress enacted the Privacy Act which prohibits any branch of gov't from copying the faces or words people use and storing those in records. It also prohbits the government from watching you as you browse a book in the library. They can't watch you when you browse internet either, its equally as important."

*showed clip of Obama from today talking about reporting fishy act, defending it, mocking it*

"There are a lot of statues that have become inconsistent but what is clear is that the government cannot monitor your thoughts words or ideas, where are they expressed? when you browse the internet? It it equally prohibited."