Fresh off its pitiful $US25,000 fine over collecting private Wi-Fi information with its Street View cars, Google is the target of a new investigation. This time, it’s because Google was found to be bypassing security settings to store cookies on unwilling mobile Safari users’ phones.
Last month it came to light that Google had been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, by installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know what was happening. Now, the FTC is examining whether the incident violates a legal settlement in which Google pledged not to “misrepresent” its privacy practices to consumers.
Last week, it came out that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, and installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know about the tracking. Now Google is being sued and could be on the hook for millions.
I’m so confused. I thought that Apple was the evil empire, and Google couldn’t do evil. Now it looks like they might both be capable of nefarious acts, as it’s alleged that Google’s allowed its advertisers to store cookies on Safari user’s systems — even if you’d never visited the advertiser’s page.
Web browser improvements seem to pop out at a pace barely detectable to the human eye, so periodically Tom’s Hardware will go through every desktop browser on Windows and OS X with a fine-toothed comb and tell you which one comes out on top. This time around, they like Firefox and Safari.
If you want to watch one of the fastest blue screens ever, just watch the video above. It demonstrates a yet-to-be-patch flaw in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that not only crashes the OS, but compromise the system, according to software security company Secunia.
A new study from a self-described “psychometric consultant” and recruitment firm says that there’s no real difference in IQ between other browsers — but IE users are, well, below average. To study the “effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser”, they ran a free online IQ test to over 100,000 people, and plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser used.
