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Google Would Pay Record FTC Fine Under Tentative Apple Safari Settlement
By Craig Timberg , THE WASHINGTON POST
Google officials have called the use of tracking cookies an accident caused by technical glitches that have been corrected. Privacy advocates have scoffed at those explanations. “When they get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar doing something they clearly should not be doing, they say, ‘Oops, it was completely by accident,’ ” said John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, based in Santa Monica, Calif., and one of several groups to file complaints about Google’s alleged tracking on Apple browsers.
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FTC Appears Ready To Fine Google Millions For iPad, iPhone Privacy Breach
CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522 x317
Friday, May 4, 2012
Consumer Watchdog Complained To Commission After Hack Was Discovered SANTA MONICA, CA – The Federal Trade Commission appears ready to fine Google millions of dollars for hacking around privacy settings on iPhones and iPads. Consumer Watchdog filed a complaint in February with the FTC after Stanford Researcher Jonathan Mayer revealed what the Internet giant was doing.
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Consumer Watchdog Applauds FTC, EU Investigations of Google’s Violation of Apple Users’ Privacy
CONTACT: Carmen Balber , 310-392-0522 x308; or Jamie Court, x327
Friday, March 16, 2012
Says FTC Action Needed to Stop Google Engineers Playing ‘Fast and Loose’ With Consumers’ Private Information Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog welcomed reports today confirming that the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators are investigating Google for violating the online privacy choices of consumers using the Safari web browser on Apple computers, iPhones and iPads. In a letter last month, Consumer Watchdog said that Google was lying to consumers and called on the FTC to act.
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Google Bypassed Apple Privacy Settings: Researcher
By Staff Writers , AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Saturday, February 18, 2012
"Google has clearly engaged in 'unfair and deceptive' practices," said Consumer Watchdog privacy project director John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director. "They have been lying about how people can protect their privacy in their instructions about how to opt out of receiving targeted advertising."
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Privacy Brouhaha Reveals Google’s Split Personality
By Staff Writers , CNET.COM
Saturday, February 18, 2012
An FTC spokesman said the agency had received the Consumer Watchdog complaint but said he could not comment further. "We are taking immediate steps to address concerns and we are happy to answer any questions regulators and others may have," Google said in a statement when asked to comment.
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How Google Gets Inside Browsers
By James Temple , THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Saturday, February 18, 2012
The group Consumer Watchdog and some lawmakers asked publicly whether Google had violated last year's settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission over an unrelated privacy breach. Some tech watchers said that while the company's actions are certainly questionable, the full extent of the breach probably exceeded what Google had intended to do, as Google itself maintains.
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Lawmakers Target Google’s Tracking
By Jennifer Valentino-Devries , THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Saturday, February 18, 2012
"Google falsely told Safari users that they could control the collection of data…when in fact Google was circumventing the preference," wrote John Simpson, the privacy-project director with the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog. Another advocacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, also made similar charges.
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Google, Safari And The Wild Web At War
By Levi Sumagaysay , GOOD MORNING SILICON VALLEY BLOG (San Jose Mercury News)
Friday, February 17, 2012
The day after a Wall Street Journal report that Google and other ad networks bypassed settings on Apple‘s Safari Web browser — which doesn’t allow certain third-party cookies — reactions are mixed. While some tech bloggers are saying, basically, that the WSJ report is blowing this thing out of proportion, one persistent Google critic, the Consumer Watchdog advocacy group, has reportedly already asked the FTC to investigate. And Microsoft, which is no friend of Google’s, has also weighed in and blasted its competitor. There’s no getting around it: This looks bad for Google, which lately seems to be putting out one PR fire after another.
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Google Caught With Hand In Safari’s Cookie Jar
By Richard Adhikari , TECHNEWSWORLD.COM
Friday, February 17, 2012
Google is among a handful of companies that used a certain unusual characteristic of Apple's Safari Web browser to insert tracking cookies on users' machines, according to recent research from a Stanford grad student. The news has outraged consumer advocacy groups, though Google claims it was using known Safari functionality to provide features that signed in Google users had enabled.
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Google Violated IPhone Users’ Privacy, Stanford Study Finds
By Heather Perlberg , BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
Friday, February 17, 2012
Google’s actions also prompted Consumer Watchdog to send a letter to the FTC and demand action against Google. “Safari users with the browser set to block third-party cookies thought they were not being tracked,” John Simpson, privacy project director of Consumer Watchdog, said in the letter. “Nonetheless, because of an element invisible to the user, but designed to mimic a form, DoubleClick was able to set tracking cookies in an obvious violation of the set preference.”
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Google Caught Tracking Apple Users
By Brendan Sasso , THEHILL.COM - HILLICON VALLEY BLOG
Friday, February 17, 2012
Consumer Watchdog, a frequent Google critic, accused the company of lying and urged the Federal Trade Commission to take "immediate action" to crack down on the "unfair and deceptive trade practices."
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Google’s Cookie Trick in Safari Stirs Debate
By Brian X. Chen , THE NEW YORK TIMES BITS BLOG
Friday, February 17, 2012
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google violated a previous agreement with the agency, which required Google to be up front about privacy matters. It says Google manipulated Safari users into believing they could permanently opt out of targeted advertising, when in reality they couldn’t.
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Google Hit With FTC Complaint, Says Circumventing Safari Privacy Features Accidental
By Jon Brodkin , ARS TECHNICA
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Consumer Watchdog advocacy group today asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google violated a previous privacy agreement with the FTC by tracking cookies in a way that circumvents default privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser.
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