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Friday, 17 February 2012

Google guilty of tricking iPhone and Mac Safari surfers

Tut, tut, tut; Google has been caught doing something it shouldn't - bypassing the privacy settings of fanboys worldwide using Safari on their iPhones or Macs.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Mountain View search giant, along with other advertising companies (including Facebook) had "used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users".

Safari blocks this sort of monitoring by default by Google and the naughty gang had been circumnavigating the default settings to to drop cookies on people's devices even when set to not accept them.

The Google code was spotted by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer and The Verge is reporting that it used an exploit by developer Anant Garg from 2010 that sends a blank form in the background to trick Safari into accepting cookies from unauthorised sources.

Google has, since being contacted by the WSJ, ceased the technique and has stated: "The Journal mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It's important to stress that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information."

Facebook has also been caught up in the security row although both it and Google would argue that the practice allows for quicker sign-in processes and seamless surfing.

Via: online.wsj.com Via: theverge.com