WhiteHouse.gov is spying on you...as is Amazon and Google

This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard surrounding all the spying allegations that have been flying around the Bush administration. The whitehouse.gov site uses a small image - 1 pixel by 1 pixel which tracks who comes and goes from the site. That little image is attached to a cookie that monitors if you come back. Dozens of websites use this technology and most of us are more than happy that it exists - it's what creates those nifty recommendation lists on Amazon. Apparently this type of tracking is forbidden in some government rules and so it is being fixed. My whole issue with this - other than that the government rule is dumb - is that if it weren't for the MSM having their underpants all in a bunch about spying intended to keep America safe, then this story would have never ever been written. Heck, the cookie/image would have probably never been discovered and nobody would care.