Google bypassed iPhone privacy settings

Google tracked the web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent, it has been revealed.

Matt Warman The Telegraph [UK] 17 Feb 2012

The search giant wrote programming code that circumvented the Apple iPhone’s default privacy settings and allowed it to monitor iPhone behaviour just as it would on the mainstream internet.

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Bill Harming Online Privacy Moving Through Congress

Nicole Ozer Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director ACLU of Northern California 7/27/2011

Today, the House Judiciary Committee is voting whether to approve legislation that would create a sweeping new provision requiring Internet companies (email, cloud, social networking, and more) to collect and retain hundreds of millions of records about the identity of online users. […]

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