Google to Pay $22.5 Million FTC Penalty in Cookie Tracking Case
Date: Aug 09 2012
Filed under: Technology, Google , Apple, Government
By Mat Smith
Google has agreed to pay a $22.5 million penalty to settle its dispute with the FTC, over the company’s role in bypassing browser settings in Apple’s Safari web browser. Although it stated that it wouldn’t use tracking cookies or targeted ads in the web browser, a loophole was discovered, violating a previous privacy settlement between the FTC and Google. According to the commission, the company exploited an exception in the browser’s default settings,…