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In 2012, the company paid $22.5 million to settle charges that it had bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser to track users and serve them targeted advertisements.
Google has come under attack for violating users' privacy and ignoring their wishes after admitting that it intentionally circumvented security settings in Apple's Safari browser to track users on both desktop computers and iPhones.
Google will use a cookie, a small piece of text that resides inside a Web browser, to track users as they visit one of the hundreds of thousands of sites that show ads through its AdSense program.
Google later agreed to a then-record FTC fine of $22.5 million in 2012 after allegations that the company worked around privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser to track users.
Last February, The Wall Street Journal discovered that Google (NASDAQ GOOGG) had found a way to bypass the security features of Apple's Safari web browser to track the sites that users visit.
Recently, Google was accused of bypassing security settings in Apple's Safari browser to track users as they surfed the web, and Microsoft chimed in to later to confirm that such a thing was happening in its Internet Explorer browser, too.
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Then it was discovered that Google was circumventing privacy settings on Web browsers to track the behavior of consumers.
For the new system, called Facebook Exchange, the company is working with a number of ad networks that will be able to use cookies in Web browsers to track users after they visit Facebook and show them ads based on their Web browsing habits – a process known as retargeting.
If it was using browser fingerprinting to track users, that would very clearly go against long-stated non-tracking principles.
However, it could be obtained easily by using a browser addon to track it.
Of course, if you are using a browser addon to track how many ads you see you might as well track how many you click.
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