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Google to settle Safari suit for $22.5 million

By  |  August 1, 2012

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    The Federal Trade Commission approved Google’s $22.5 million settlement of a case probing whether the search engine bypassed Apple Safari users’ privacy settings. The FTC investigation centered on allegations that Google used “cookies,” a type of computer code, to track information entered and websites visited by Safari users who had attempted to disable “cookies” on their browser.

    Google is also under a similar investigation conducted by the European Commission whose privacy laws are even more stringent than their US counterparts.

    Full content: Reuters

     

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