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Submitted: July 31, 2012 - 6:57pm
Originally published: July 31, 2012
Last updated: July 31, 2012 - 7:05pm
Originally published: July 31, 2012
Last updated: July 31, 2012 - 7:05pm
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Reuters
Author:
Diane Bartz
Location:
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20580, United States
Apparently, the Federal Trade Commission will require Google Inc to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple's Safari browser. An official announcement is expected within days. The probe was prompted by allegations that Google used computer code known as "cookies" to trick Apple's Safari browser so Google could monitor users who had blocked such tracking.
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