Thursday, August 9, 2012

Economy - Voice of America: US Fines Search Engine Google for Privacy Violation

Economy - Voice of America
economy-and-business
US Fines Search Engine Google for Privacy Violation
Aug 9th 2012, 18:41

The U.S. consumer watchdog agency has imposed its biggest fine ever - on Google, the popular Internet search engine. The Federal Trade Commission fined the American technology giant $22.5 million Thursday as settlement of charges that it violated people's privacy even after pledging not to do so. The consumer agency said that for several months last year and into 2012, Google installed an advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari web browser users so it could monitor what ...

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