A recently implemented "delayed cookie" privacy feature at YouTube begs the question: When is a cookie not a cookie?

The White House has quietly moved away from the use of YouTube videos on the president's official home page.

update After Google seemingly ignored restrictive search engine-blocking code built into the Obama administration's new stimulus-related site, the robots.txt code is removed.

The U.S. president's insistence on keeping his RIM device creates a number of risks, chief among them: attacks against his location privacy and physical security.

Whitehouse.gov's administrators silently triple the number of Web pages that it forbids Google and other search engines from accessing. Is this a bad omen or much ado about nothing?