I heard something awhile back about the us government(NSA) leveraging the cookie in a way that they could use it as a surveillance beacon. I doubt there is any

I heard something awhile back about the us government(NSA) leveraging the cookie in a way that they could use it as a surveillance beacon. I doubt there is any relation, but it makes you think a bit. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/nsa-turns-cookies-and-more-surveillance-beacons https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/nsa-turns-cookies-and-...