The use of cookies in Federal agency web sites: Privacy and recordkeeping issues

McCarthy, Laura; Yates, Dave

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2010.02.005

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“…Cookies were only allowed with explicit approval. The policy was generally perceived as too constraining and as a barrier (McCarthy & Yates, 2010). An updated policy now states that cookies can be used to help websites deliver personalized versions to their visitors by remembering parts of the customized entries voluntarily contributed by citizens.…”

Section: Steps Toward Institutionalizing Social Mediamentioning

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A framework for interpreting social media interactions in the public sector

Mergel

2013

Government Information Quarterly

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a b s t r a c t Keywords:Social media measurement Digital interactions Open Government Initiative U.S. federal government Social media applications are extending the information and communication technology landscape in the public sector and are used to increase government transparency, participation and collaboration in the U.S. federal government. The success, impact and performance of these new forms of bi directional and networked interactions can provide insights to understand compliance with the mandate of the Open Government Initiative. Many government agencies are experimenting with the use of social media, however very few actively measure the impact of their digital interactions. This article builds on insights from social media directors in the U.S. federal government highlighting their current lack of measurement practices for social media interactions. Based on their articulated needs for measurement, existing rules regulating the extent of measurement practices and technological features of the main social media platforms, a framework is presented that traces online interactions to mission support and the resulting social media tactics. Implications for both researchers and practitioners are discussed.

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Section: Steps Toward Institutionalizing Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for interpreting social media interactions in the public sector

Mergel

2013

Government Information Quarterly

399

339

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“…Even when personally identifying information is masked, expressive information shared online can be used to connect anonymous individuals with their true identities (Yates, Shute, & Rotman, 2010). Others fear that government agencies involved in disaster response might track, catalog, or otherwise invade the privacy of public individuals who do decide to help (McCarthy & Yates, 2010). Thus the implications of publicly crowdsourcing disaster information are not yet well understood.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Social Media In Future Disaster Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Emergency knowledge management and social media technologies: A case study of the 2010 Haitian earthquake

Yates

Paquette

2011

International Journal of Information Management

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“…At the same time that our privacy is being statutorily reduced by laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, the government is collecting more personal information about its citizens. In 2009, the United States Government Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to change its prohibition on web tracking technologies, like cookies, on federal websites (McCarthy & Yates, 2010). The OMB said that decreasing privacy to allow the use of social media services would make federal government websites "more user friendly, providing better customer service, and allowing for enhanced web analytics," (McCarthy & Yates, 2010, 232) but pro-privacy organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electric Privacy Information Center, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged the removal of the cookies prohibition as a potential reversal on the existing policy assuring that government websites should not be able to track the internet use activity of government website users (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2009).…”

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Why library cards offer more privacy rights than proof of citizenship: Librarian ethics and Freedom of Information Act requestor policies

Lamdan¹

2013

Government Information Quarterly

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This paper demonstrates the divergent requestor privacy policies of professional librarians and the administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and urges the federal government to adhere to librarian ethics in order to protect FOIA requestors. Section 1 of the paper provides information about the origins and purpose of the FOIA. Section 2 offers an overview of the philosophical and historical origins of library patron privacy ethics, discussing both the ethical basis for patron privacy and actual instances where library records have been sought for government surveillance of private citizens. Section 3 describes the state library laws that protect library requestors, as well as federal laws that protect non-FOIA requestor privacy rights, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which protects video rental records. Section 4 of the paper warns that, in the digital era, it is more important than ever to safeguard personal information like that contained in FOIA requests to prevent the stifling of information seeking activities in the United States. By modifying laws tomeet the needs of the "information age," the United States government can embrace and utilize the ethical standards that are at the foundation of librarianship, and protect the principle that information should be free and available to the American populace.

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The use of cookies in Federal agency web sites: Privacy and recordkeeping issues

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

A framework for interpreting social media interactions in the public sector

A framework for interpreting social media interactions in the public sector

Emergency knowledge management and social media technologies: A case study of the 2010 Haitian earthquake

Why library cards offer more privacy rights than proof of citizenship: Librarian ethics and Freedom of Information Act requestor policies

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