I normally beat up right wing incompetence, but time to have a go at left wing paranoia.

Unlike stories of outing spies etc., many people in technology know that using tracking pixels or cookies is ubiquitous, accepted practice, i.e. neither unusual or sinister.

So the thing that can be learned from the story below, is that if something sounds sinister, people will report it as such and one can assume that this is the case for other accusations against the government.

ABC News: U.S. to Probe Contractor's Web Tracking