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Google Loses Ruling In Safari Tracking Case

Posted by Soulskill on from the permission-for-lawyers-to-make-money dept.

mpicpp sends this report from CNET: The floodgates are now open for UK users to sue Google over privacy violations tied to tracking cookies. In a landmark ruling, the UK's Court of Appeal has dismissed Google's request to prevent British Web users from suing the company over tracking cookies and privacy violations. The decision was announced Friday, according to the BBC. In spite of default privacy settings and user preferences — including an opt-out of consent to be tracked by cookies — Google's tracking cookies gathered information on Safari browser users for nine months in 2011 and 2012.

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  1. And who *ever* bought "Don't be evil"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google started in the gutter as a fucking AD AGENCY, and they went downhill to selling every detail of your private life they can get their grubby hands on.

    Their fundamental business is to wring every last bit of privacy from you and SELL IT.

    Don't tell me you EVER thought "Don't be evil" was anything other than a marketing slogan concocted by - get this - an ad agency.

  2. Re:Wrong target by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except Google went out of their way to exploit this bug to so they could use their cookie to further their business goals. This was no ‘accidental’ situation where they happened to get cookies, they adjusted their code to trigger the bug.