Google To Pay $22.5 Million For Users Tracking
As reported earlier, Google has bypassed the cookie settings in both Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsers. Thankfully, it wasn’t left unnoticed by the Federal Trade Commission.
Now, according to the WSJ, Google is close to a settlement, which would require them to pay a total of $22.5 million to the FTC.
And yes, it’s just a pocket change for company that brings billions of dollars in revenue every year.
Interestingly enough, the Wall Street Journal only mentions Safari so we are not sure whether or not FTC has a separate case for the Internet Explorer users tracking or the fine covers both cases.
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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
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Good guy Opera and Firefox, protects it users.
Seriously Safari and IE get better security.
There shouldn’t be a lawsuit for IE. Their cookie blocking technology is so deprecated and proprietary that even Microsoft has sites that bypass their own security.