Google to pay $17mn for spying on Safari users

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Press TV - ISH/ARA, 11/19/13

 

Google has not acknowledged any wrongdoing saying the violation has been an accidental side effect of efforts to make it easier for people to recommend ads.

Google has not acknowledged any wrongdoing saying the violation has been an accidental side effect of efforts to make it easier for people to recommend ads.

 

US technology giant Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia for spying on users of a Web browser developed by Apple Inc.

The settlement was announced on Monday after it was revealed that DoubleClick, a Google subsidiary that develops and provides Internet advertising services, manipulated a technological loophole to spy on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012.

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