A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

The Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered federal portal with privacy protections, but its underlying Login.gov authentication system contains recently added code that creates a long-lived browser identifier (nds_experiment_uuid) for tracking purposes, raising questions about the privacy implications of this permanent cookie despite the platform's explicit privacy pledge. The executive order directs federal agencies to integrate Login.gov as America.gov's authentication layer, though the tracking mechanism's purpose and privacy safeguards have not been publicly explained.