Google he is not going through his best moment when it comes to legal disputes. The Mountain View giant has had to pay 17 million dollars for the accusations of 37 states and the District of Columbia for breaking the laws and allegedly bypassing the privacy of the users of the browser of the Cupertino, the Safari.
Last Monday, the agreement reached by Google was announced, by which almost two years of investigations were ended, aimed at proving that they bypassed the privacy settings of Safari users, introducing cookies in the browser.
As we know, through cookies, companies get to know the tastes that browser users have. In this way they can launch individualized advertising campaigns according to the sites that the user visits. In the case of Apple's browser, Safari blocks cookies automatically, preventing Google from launching these advertising campaigns. To alleviate this situation, it only occurred to them to rummage through the source code of the files and modify it to avoid the blockage that those of Cupertino introduced.
The blockades were launched in the months of June 2011 to February of the following year. Of course, Google continues without giving the arm to twist and continues saying that they did not induce anything. In addition, they agree not to use that type of code capable of overriding the browser settings without notifying the user.
As data, we can tell you that Google is still the world's leading search engine, generating about 50 billion dollars in 2012. The 17 million dollars are not enough for a company of this caliber.
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Source - 9to5mac
