Friday, August 10, 2012

Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges over tracking cookies in Apple's Safari browser

Google to pay $225 million to settle FTC charges over tracking cookies in Apple's Safari browser

Google has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle its dispute with the FTC, over the company's role in bypassing browser settings in Apple's Safari web browser. Although it stated that it wouldn't use tracking cookies or targeted ads to the web browser, a loophole was discovered that allowed them, violating a previous privacy settlement between the FTC and Google.

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