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Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-interesting-if-she'd-accepted-a-$22.5M-bribe dept.

itwbennett writes "Judge Susan Illston has said she will approve a $22.5 million settlement deal between Google and the FTC over the company's practice of circumventing privacy protections in Apple's Safari browser to place tracking cookies on user's computers. Judge Illston also expressed concern about what will happen to the tracking data Google collected, since the settlement doesn't call for Google to destroy the data."

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  1. Probably not worth it, but... by dyingtolive · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Google has effectively bought data on all fifteen Safari users out there for 22.5M. Hardly a good bargain, but I suppose that might help them optimize black turtleneck and Starbucks coffee advertisements, or something.

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    1. Re:Probably not worth it, but... by ClosedEyesSeeing · · Score: 2

      That's not entirely fair... I had to use Safari to download it's replacement: Chrome. :)

  2. Re:Don't be evil, indeed. by Tough+Love · · Score: 2

    $22.5 million is just "being bad" not "being evil".

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