WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday that its drug office has been ordered to stop secretly collecting information on people who visit its anti-drug Internet sites.

"We will take steps necessary to halt these practices now," the White House said in a statement released through the press office. The statement said that contractors working with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy also have been directed to destroy all information collected clandestinely from visitors to the anti-drug sites

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