An increasing number of Android applications are attempting to track users without their knowledge…
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Google to pay $5.5 million for sneaking around Apple’s privacy settings to collect user data
Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…
UK Supreme Court allows Google to appeal ruling granting Apple Safari users the right to sue over ad tracking
The UK’s Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal against…
Google to pay $17 million to settle U.S. states’ Safari user tracking probe
Google Inc will pay $17 million to settle allegations by 37 states…
Judge dismisses case against Google over Safari user tracking
It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online…
Apple, Google, app developers gird for FTC fines, growth-stifling government regulation
Apple and legions of software developers are girding for fines and rules that threaten to stifle growth…
Apple App Store rejecting iOS apps using cookie-tracking methods
Mobile app developers using a technology called…
Obama’s privacy plan puts pinch on Google
Jonathan Mayer of Stanford University found that Google intentionally circumvented Safari’s privacy feature…
Obama administration outlines online privacy guidelines
The Obama administration on Wednesday outlined a set of online privacy principles…
Google responds to Microsoft over privacy issues, calls IE’s cookie policy ‘widely non-operational’
Microsoft has accused Google of manipulating Internet Explorer’s default privacy restrictions…
WSJ: Google tracked iPhone, iPad users, bypassing Apple’s Safari browser privacy settings; Microsoft denounces
Safari normally blocks cookies used by ad networks and others to track people…
