Google to pay $22.5M privacy settlement with FTC
Photo credit: Getty Images, 2011 | Google is testing a new program that allows its search engine to bring information drawn from its users' Gmail accounts to a main search page.
Google's $22.5 million agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle claims the company improperly planted cookies on Apple's Safari Internet browser was approved by a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco found arguments from a consumer group that the settlement was inadequate unpersuasive and accepted the agreement.
The court "finds that the...
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