Search giant Google has been
fined with a huge amount of $22.5 million by the US Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) for violating the privacy of people who used Apple's Safari web browser
even after pledging not to do so last year.
Yet, Google agreed to the fine
but did not admit it had violated the agreement.
As per the FTC, Google had agreed
with the commission in October 2011 not to place tracking cookies on or deliver
targeted ads to Safari users, but still violated its pledge. To safeguard
privacy of the users the commission has taken a bold step.
"For several months in 2011
and 2012, Google placed a certain advertising tracking cookie on the computers
of Safari users who visited sites within Google's DoubleClick advertising network,"
the FTC said in a statement.
The commission has made it clear
that all companies must abide by FTC orders against them and keep their privacy
promises to consumers irrespective of size of the company, or else they will
have to pay a huge amount in fine which may be quiet bigger than it would have
cost to comply in the first place.
On the other hand a Google
spokesperson has said that "We set the highest standards of privacy and
security for our users."
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