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(CBS News) Some members of Congress are calling for an investigation of Google, after word came out the company has been tracking iPhone users all over the Internet -- even users who thought they blocked that kind of surveillance CBS News correspondent John Blackstone spoke with the man who uncovered what Google was doing
Google Under Fire: Over "Secretly Tracking Users"
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Most iPhone and iPad users access the Internet through Apple's Safari browser, which automatically sets up a barrier to keep out tracking programs from third-party advertisers. Google found a way to secretly get through that barrier, letting the advertisers flow in and tracking information flow out.
"The technology we were looking at involves taking what Google learned through organizing your information, and using that to enrich their advertising content on non-Google websites," said Meyer
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#1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:26 PM ESTGoogle sucks and keeps your information FOREVER. Microsoft holds it only 3 months. Use Bing.
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In a statement, Google insists the tracking codes it planted "do not collect personal information." And that it "didn't anticipate this would happen" when it made changes to improve access to Google features on Safari.
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Any information collected is personal information. Doesn't matter if it is targeted for this, the information can be winnowed out of it. For people who are so computer savvy to deny this is like a lone child in a room with chocolate all over his/her face and hands, claiming not to have eaten that chocolate bar.
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