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After tracking Safari, Google is now accused of violating IE privacy

While Google is dealing with the accusation of violating privacy by tracking Safari, Microsoft comes forward ...

February 21, 2012 / 10:45 IST
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While Google is dealing with the accusation of violating privacy by tracking Safari, Microsoft comes forward slamming Google over similar tracking of the Internet Explorer. Google, allegedly has employed similar methods to violate default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies, revealed Microsoft in a blog post. It also shows IE users how they could protect their privacy from Google by using IE9's Tracking Protection feature. The WSJ was the first to pick a report that showed Google tracking Apple’s Safari browser. However, Google said that the glitch allowed cookies to be set accidentally on Safari, while also promising to fix it. Cookies are bits of data about the user’s Internet activity. These bits can be used to remember passwords, settings of the sites that are frequently surfed. But this could also be done to target advertisements.  Click here for full story

first published: Feb 21, 2012 10:36 am

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