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Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings

Published in Microsoft News by Oscar with 394 views

When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question:is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies. Below we spell out in more detail what we’ve discovered, as well as recommendations to IE users on how to protect their privacy from Google with the use of IE9's Tracking Protection feature.

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