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Hey, do you remember when they told us that if we voted for McCain, it would just mean a continuation of policies designed to invade our privacy? Well, they were right.

The (Bush) administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.

A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies and replace it with other privacy safeguards. The current prohibition, in place since 2000, can be waived if an agency head cites a "compelling need."

Supporters of a change say social networking and similar services, which often take advantage of the tracking technologies, have transformed how people communicate over the Internet, and (Bush’s) aides say those services can make government more transparent and increase public involvement.

We’d be a little less skeptical of this attempt at “transparency” if the knuckleheads in the (Bush) administration hadn’t solicited information from their followers regarding those who dare oppose the administrations policies with the use of a snitch site at whitehouse.gov. As it is, there’s no way we are buying into this.