Google Bypassed iPhone Privacy Settings Secretly
Are iPhone users are being spied upon? It brings back the Big Brother is watching you stuff all over again.
- Gooles says opps…
- Google is under “intense scrutiny” for its privacy practices
- Broken Promisess with FTC
www.windowsitpro.com
Google Secretly Bypassed iPhone Privacy SettingsA Stanford researcher discovered that Google was purposefully circumventing the privacy settings in the iPhone’s web browser in order to store cookies that track users’ movements online. As soon as this was revealed publicly, first in a “Wall Street Journal” report, Google stopped the practice. But the question remains: Why the heck would Google do such a thing in the first place?
Google says its all a misunderstanding.
Misunderstanding ? Baloney! they know exactly what they are doing they are thinking and acting on their self imposed god-like attitudes.They can you cannot …
Again we read from windowsitpro.com :
“The Journal mischaracterizes what happened and why,” a Google statement reads. “We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It’s important to stress that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information.”
Meanwhile, the WSJ says that Google has also silently removed language from its web site that had previously stated that using the privacy settings in the iPhone correctly would prevent Google from tracking users online.
The paper also notes that Google is under “intense scrutiny” for its privacy practices and that it had previously promised not to misrepresent its privacy policy with consumers in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission last year. At least two groups have already complained to the FTC that this practice violates that settlement,
Whats next for Google? Are they setting a example to follow? We they come clean and state that they were just wrong or will it all get sweep under the rug?
