Thursday, August 9, 2012

Google Pays $22.5 Millions To FTC

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Google has recently pays $22.5 millions to Federal Trade Commission for misleading the user’s of Apple Inc.’s Safari. This is largest fine to a single company. Google is fined for placing the cookies on the user’s of safari browser of Apple Inc. Google tracks the user’s by using the cookies and generates a big revenue thorough their AdSense affiliate programmed.
                                                         Cookies are small files of codes stored on user’s computer to the activities online. Most of the cookies are used by the advertiser’s to track their customer’s so that they can generate their revenue by selling their product’s. By placing the cookies they know in what products the user is interested and they recommend that product to the user.
                  Safari has “Do not Track” Function preloaded in which cookies are not used to track, and the browser is installed on the Macs, IPhones and on IPads. But Google place the cookies and generate large revenue from Safari user’s. For this FTC fined  the Google for violating a commission order and now Google pays $22.5 millions to FTC.
     Google has also agreed to disable all the tracking cookies and would not place on users' computers in future.

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