Google secretly tracks Apple Safari web surfers, agrees to record $22.5M fine on privacy
Now that Google has emerged unscathed from its U.S. antitrust probe, the search company has free reign to transform its search engine with less fear of legal action from regulators.
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Posted: 08/09/2012
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is paying a record $22.5 million fine to settle allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of Web surfers who use Apple's Safari browser.
The penalty announced Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission matches the figure that The Associated Press and other media outlets had reported last month. It's the largest fine that the FTC has imposed against a company for violating a previous agreement with the agency.
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