Google facing Congressional backlash over tracking of Safari users

[nec207]

Google came under fire today by several members of Congress after a Stanford University grad student disclosed how the search giant has been tracking the online activities of users of Apple's Safari Web browser, despite the default use of a browser mechanism to block such tracking.

Jonathan Mayer, a grad student and privacy researcher, wrote about Google's Safari tracking techniques in this blog posting. (http://webpolicy.org/2012/02/17/safari-trackers/) Mayer's findings got wide attention after The Wall Street Journal featured it in a story published Friday.


Read more here http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/02/google-facing-congressional-backlash-over-tracking-of-safari-users-/1



It is fact that google ,yahoo,big and youtube is spyware it tracks you and know what you like and where you go.


The problem is most people do not read the privacy policy and terms and when they hear the news well they hate the fact that google ,yahoo,bing or youtube does this.You kmow track them and keep log in theire database !!!


What does google do they track you and keep log in theire database and sale it to advertisers and businesses.

It all over the news today.

[Grenage]

Who needs facts, when paranoia and opinion are in such abundance?

[koleoptero]

Who needs facts, when paranoia and opinion are in such abundance?
That sounds like a Mark Twain quote. LOL

Google can track us all they want, much good it'll do them.

[mips]

Anybody on safari really should have tracking, Africa is a big & dangerous place and people get lost all the time!

[Gremlinzzz]

This is some of the reasons i don't use Google

[Gremlinzzz]

Seems Google can't stay out of the news/
"The real question is how much influence companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook will have in their inevitable attempt to water down the rules that are implemented and render them essentially meaningless," John Simpson, who works on privacy issues for Consumer Watchdog, told the New York Times.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17144760

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