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Google faces new privacy probes

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Mar 162012
 

“Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.”

For you majors in the viewing audience, the article contains a nice and compact explanation of what steps one takes to do this in Safari.

 Posted by Purtilo at 9:04 am on March 16, 2012

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