Google Secretly Bypassed iPhone Privacy Settings

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Paul Thurrott

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By Paul Thurrott
A Stanford researcher discovered that Google was purposefully circumventing the privacy settings in the iPhone’s web browser in order to store cookies that track users’ movements online. As soon as this was revealed publicly, first in a "Wall Street Journal" report, Google stopped the practice. But the question remains: Why the heck would Google do such a thing in the first place?

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