Google bypassed Apple's privacy settings to track web-browsing habits of iPhone users

Saturday, 18 February 2012

Google bypassed Apple's privacy settings to track web-browsing habits of iPhone users

Google has come under fire after it emerged that the Internet search giant tracked the web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent by bypassing privacy settings built into Apple's Safari web browser.

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Source: WOFL FOX 35 Orlando, FL Google and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple's Web browser on their iPhones and computers-tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocke

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