Google violating the privacy rights of users Apple safari ?

Google and three advertising companies in the network on Friday accused the privacy settings in the applications through Apple’s browser “Safari” to track surfing habits on your computer and iPhone.

“The application Safari browser by default is configured to block” cookies “to third parties. We identified four companies that place advertising cookies that can be tracked in Safari. Google and Vibrant Media deliberately circumvent privacy features Safari,” said a Stanford University student, in a blog post which was released on Friday.

Tracking code was confirmed by the technical supervisor Wall Street Journal. Than 100 popular internet pages, found 22 pages containing advertisements in a computer fitted with tracking code by Google. A total of 23 advertisements are also attached as a code in the iPhone.

According to the research, Google and other companies have exploited loopholes in the Safari browser application privacy settings, which by default blocks the tracking, but makes an exception if a user interacts with the page, for example by filling in certain forms.

“So the Google add in some ad code, so that Safari thinks a user is sending the form invisible to Google. Safari will then let Google place a cookie on your phone or computer,” said Wall Street Journal reports.

The report said a small file called a “cookie” that usually does not work after 12 to 24 hours, but sometimes it may serve to further search for the users of Safari, because Safari allows a company to add more cookies in a computer when a cookie has been attached.

Google disable the code after being contacted by the Wall Street Journal, the daily said. The search giant also eliminates some of the instructions to the user’s Safari in one of their internet page, which says the user can do via Safari privacy settings if you want to prevent tracking of privacy by Google.

“The journal was misreading the situation. We used to use Safari to provide a feature that enabled users of Google. It is important to emphasize that the ad cookies do not collect personal information,” Google said in a statement.

Three other online advertising companies are also accused of using a similar code is Vibrant Media, WPP `s Media Innovation Group and Gannett’s PointRoll.

A programmer in Mumbai, Anant Garg (25), is the developer of the code “Safari workaround” and posting on the use of technically two years ago. He told the Wall Street Journal that he did not consider the aspect of privacy because he just wanted Safari browser works like other applications.

Consumer monitoring group on Friday asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Google violated the previous agreement with the FTC about piracy by placing cookies tracking away from the privacy settings in Safari browser application.

Also on Friday, Microsoft criticized Google-related practices, saying it was not the first to do Google. In a blog posting titled “Spreads without terambah”, Microsoft is promoting the application of Internet Explorer 9, by highlighting the strongest privacy protection in the internet industry.

Google is under scrutiny related to violations of the privacy rights of users. Late last month, Google announced to rewrite their privacy policy, by consolidating information across users of their services.

The move was immediately welcomed concern and disappointment that Google does not offer choice to users certain privacy restrictions.


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That's bad, but nothing in comparison to what they released on March 1, 2012 or Now! They're tracking every move you make now. Globally!

USA residences - change to Bing Now!
Non USA - Change to Bing or invent your own search engine immediately!

 

This changes will harm google. People will shift his account from google to other ( Yahoo and MSN ) due to the some security reason. Making account detail public is not a good idea.