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Google have actually been fined for circumventing privacy settings more than once. In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires Google to
by benologist 8y ago
Google have actually been fined for circumventing privacy settings more than once.
In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires
Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it
would not place on consumers’ computers.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/google-will-pay-225-million-settle-ftc-charges-it-misrepresented https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/googl...
https://venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/google-privacy-settlement/ https://venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/google-privacy-settlement...
- kllrnohj 8y agoGoogle made no promises on that setting. Apple offered a setting, failed to implement it properly, and Google got fined for it. That's what happened there. But regardless what clearly did not happen in that case is Google violating one of Google's own settings. Which is what we're talking about here - the settings Chrome offers being violated. There's no evidence of that.