Eric Peterson: Persistent Cookies and the Federal Government

If you have a few minutes, check out Eric Peterson’s open letter to President-Elect Obama.  It’s a thoughtful letter with some interesting user comments.  Eric is a frequent Shop.org speaker.  While the gist of the letter is a call for the Federal Governnment to make better use of persistent cookies, it also raises some important issues about cookies that will surely be the center of an online privacy debate expected in Congress in early 2009.