Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser and monitoring web surfers using Apple's Safari browser who had a "do not track" privacy setting selected.As a result Google had agreed to pay a record fine of $22.5m (£14.4m) in August this year . This is largest fine ever imposed on a single company by the US Federal Trade Commission. Google exploited a loophole in Safari to place cookies on its users’ computers even though Safari, by default, blocks cookies from third-party sites.Safari makes an exception for cookies from sites that users interacted with before by, for example, filling out a form. To place its ad tracking cookies, Google tricked Safari into believing that users were submitting a form to Google and the browser would then allow Google to install its temporary ad tracking cookies. This, according to the FTC, was in direct violation of the earlier privacy settlement between Google and the FTC.
Though Google will surely be unhappy paying a fine, but the search engine company has more than enough cash to afford this one. While reading the reports of the Google agreeing to pay this record fine , I also read the news that during its last-reported quarter ended that ended on June 30, Google generated a $2.8 billion profit of $12.2 billion in revenue.
Though Google will surely be unhappy paying a fine, but the search engine company has more than enough cash to afford this one. While reading the reports of the Google agreeing to pay this record fine , I also read the news that during its last-reported quarter ended that ended on June 30, Google generated a $2.8 billion profit of $12.2 billion in revenue.