A group of UK consumers is pursuing damages against Google in line with last year's accusations that the company was storing cookies in Apple's Safari web browser, regardless of users' privacy settings. Though Google was last year ...
Tags: Google, privacy settings, cookies
Google's latest attempt to add more content to its local business listings by buying travel brand Frommer has been challenged by the Consumer Watchdog. The acquisition – the financial details of which were not disclosed – ...
Tags: Consumer Watchdog, Frommer, Google, Safari tracking
In the wake of Apple's crushing patent victory against Samsung in court late last week,Reuters reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook has been having secret phone calls with Google CEO Larry Page(pictured). According to sources close to the ...
Tags: Apple, Google, Patent, mobile patent, Samsung
Google's latest attempt to add more content to its local business listings by buying travel brand Frommer has been challenged by the Consumer Watchdog. The acquisition – the financial details of which were not disclosed – ...
Tags: Frommer, Watchdog, google, John Wiley
As predicted last month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a record fine on Google of $22.5m (£14.4m) to settle charges that the company wrongly assured users of Apple's Safari browser that its tracking cookies were ...
Tags: Google, Safari, FTC, Thomas Rosch, DoubleClick
Privacy advocates today welcomed news of a possible Google proposal to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges related to its surreptitious tracking of Apple Safari users. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, ...
Tags: Google, USA, FTC, surreptitious tracking