Last week , it came out that Googlehas been bypassing privacy settingsin Safari , and install cooky to track the browsing habit of millions of drug user who did n’t know about the tracking . Now Googleis being suedand could be on the hook for gazillion .
https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-planted-cookies-on-iphones-without-anyones-5885929
Businessweek reports that a course - legal action ailment has been file against Google in US District Court . The complaint alleges that the company willfully infract the Federal Wiretap Act . The legislating explicitly prohibits company from monitoring communication without license . If Google is bump guilty , it ’s shamed millions of times over . In premature affirmation the party has said that the offending cookies were being used by stroke and disabled the codification that installed them in Safari . So far , Google has n’t commented on the suit itself .
This situation just keeps have bad and worse for Google . In addition to the course - action mechanism suit , a complaint has also been filed with the FTC , and just yesterday , Microsoftclaimedthat Google also bypassed privacy setting in Microsoft net Explorer . [ BusinessweekviaArs Technica ]
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-google-secretly-planted-cookies-in-inter-5886657
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