According to a Wall Street Journal report, the investigations could embroil Google in years of legal battles and result in hefty fines for privacy violations.
| Google has been clouded by controversies since it released its privacy rules. The company can be in serious trouble now with US regulators and Eurpean Union scrutinising the search giant for alleged bypass in privacy setting of millions of users of Apple's Safari Web browser. It is being said that the company ceased the process last month. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the investigations could embroil Google in years of legal battles and result in hefty fines for privacy violations. The Journal was the one who had reported last month about Google using some special computer code to install tiny tracking files or ‘cookies’ on computers, iPhones and iPads. They did not even spare the devices that were ‘reportedly’ immune to such tracking. Commenting on the issue, a Google spokesperson told media, “We will of course cooperate with any officials who have questions. But it's important to remember that we didn't anticipate this would happen, and we have been removing these advertising cookies from Safari browsers.” |  |
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