A group of users Apple Safari web browser campaign against Google over privacy concerns.They claim that Google Safari bypassed security settings to install cookies to track movements on the internet.Between summer 2011 and spring 2012 was certainly they Google this were not the case, and believed to be safe safari locations.Until one has started legal proceedings against Google.Has instructed a law firm to coordinate additional demands made by other individuals.Fined last year Google $ 22.5m (£ 14m) in the United States for the same acts.The
cookies collected data on the activities of online the Google web users
in order to provide them with more targeted advertising.Judith Vidal-Hall, former editor of Index on Censorship magazine, the first person in the UK to start a legal action."Google claims it does not collect personal data but does not say which determines what information is 'personal'," she said."Whether something is private or not should be up to the surfer internet, Google. ... Best not to make a decision."When
Google fined by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2012, said
chairperson Jon Leibowitz that all of the company "to keep their
privacy promises to customers."But
the penalty for Google misrepresenting its actions Safari users other
than the actual act of bypassing the security arrangements, and the
firm was not required to admit wrongdoing.Google
declined to comment on the latest action, which was launched to
coincide with Data annual sixth Privacy Day in the United Kingdom.'No accident'"This incident was no accident," said Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch campaign group civil liberties PA News agency."Google
Tracking people when they were explicitly told that they did not want
to track, and so it is no surprise to see consumers who believe that
their privacy was steamrollered by corporate greed seeking redress
through the courts."This
case may very important legal precedent to help consumers protect their
privacy against a profit-led decisions to ignore the rights of people."According
to the analystics network service StatCounter, at the end of% 2012 7.92
global sample of three million net users access the internet via
Safari, and 36.42% used Google Chrome browser.
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