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Google fined $22.5 million for Safari tracking
CBS / CNET ^ | 11-19-2012

Posted on 11/19/2012 8:41:44 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs

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The FTC claimed that Google assured those users that they would be automatically opted out of the tracking because of Safari's handling of third-party cookies. However, according to the FTC, those users were not immediately opted out and therefore Google contradicted a 2011 privacy agreement it had made with the government agency. Google and the FTC reached the settlement agreement in August when the Web giant agreed to pay $22.5 million on charges that it "placed an advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari users who visited sites within Google's DoubleClick advertising network."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: google; safari

1 posted on 11/19/2012 8:41:52 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Interesting...


2 posted on 11/19/2012 8:43:23 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Don’t search on google! Use IXQ. No cookies, no tracking your IP.
https://www.ixquick.com/

Click on the word “Private” to read their policies.


3 posted on 11/19/2012 8:48:40 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Thanks for the tip. I just made this my default search engine. I left google a while back and had been using Bing.


4 posted on 11/19/2012 9:36:57 AM PST by circlecity
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

We should grab those two Google entrepeneurs and string them up by the scrots.


5 posted on 11/19/2012 10:12:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: circlecity

IXQ searches Bing, Google, Jeeves and others. It just puts you behind a firewall. Their “Star” system is nice.


6 posted on 11/19/2012 10:13:05 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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