OBAMA’S PRIVACY PLAN PUTS PINCH ON GOOGLE
Google’s trickery of tracking users of Apple’s (AAPL) Macs, iPhones and iPads without their knowledge or permission recently raised a firestorm whenJonathan Mayer of Stanford University found that Google intentionally circumvented Safari’s privacy feature.
Caught red-handed, Google offered a convoluted explanation. Mayer attempts to set the record straight here.
As though violating privacy of Apple users was not enough for Google, now Microsoft (MSFT) accuses Google of bypassing privacy settings of Internet Explorer users. Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Microsoft describes Google’s conduct in detail here, noting, “Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.”… Please click here or the title below to read more.