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Which is not as odd as it seemed then - it’s a good technique now that I think about it. “We hope that they will take this opportunity to give Safari users a proper explanation about what happened, to apologize and, where appropriate, compensate the victims of their intrusion.”ĭon Melton, a now-retired programmer who once worked at Apple under the Safari and WebKit projects, posted an interesting anecdote on his blog yesterday that detailed how Apple’s Internet browser barely escaped the monikers “iBrowse,” “Alexander”, and even “Freedom”.Īs I remember, Steve just started saying some names out loud - I suppose trying them out to see how they felt in his mouth and to his ears. Ĭlaimants thought that cookies would be blocked because of assurances given by Google in the time their devices were allegedly affected, from summer 2011 to spring 2012, and also because of Safari’s default settings. They say that cookies, small tracking files, were installed by Google on the Apple computers and mobile devices of those using the Safari internet browser without their knowledge. It is thought the case, being brought against Google by law firm Olswang on behalf of the internet users, is the first of its kind in the UK. The Telegraph via Business Insider has the full story:

They also want a “proper explanation” about how their personal information was used. Now, 12 iPhone users in the United Kingdom have launched a lawsuit against Google that seeks compensation related to the tracking.

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Google agreed to pay a record $22.5 million Federal Trade Commission fine in August following an investigation into whether it bypassed mobile Safari security settings to install tracking cookies without user consent.