Google bypassed privacy settings tracking cookies discovered in Safari and IE


After the discovery that Google had bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser, Microsoft has announced that the same problem occurs in Internet Explorer.
A blog from the IE engineering team published yesterday read;
When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.
It went on to say;
We’ve found that Google bypasses the P3P Privacy Protection feature in IE. The result is similar to the recent reports of Google’s circumvention of privacy protections in Apple’s Safari Web browser, even though the actual bypass mechanism Google uses is different.
Microsoft also published hints for users to protect their privacy, check them out at;
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.asp

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