From the White House blog:
Nine years ago — a lifetime in Internet time — the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a policy commonly referred to as “the cookies policy. ” This policy prohibited federal agencies from using certain web-tracking technologies, primarily persistent cookies, unless the agency head provided a waiver. This may sound like arcane, boring policy – but it is really important in the online world.
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