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bob3160 · « **Reply #300 on:** February 21, 2012, 01:50:38 PM »

Quote from: Asyn on February 21, 2012, 01:34:33 PM

Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx

This can also be rephrased as Apple and Microsoft aren't protecting their users privacy.

Asyn · « **Reply #301 on:** February 22, 2012, 06:51:35 AM »

Quote from: bob3160 on February 21, 2012, 01:50:38 PM

Quote from: Asyn on February 21, 2012, 01:34:33 PM
Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx
This can also be rephrased as Apple and Microsoft aren't protecting their users privacy.

Well, Rachel Whetstone (Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy, Google) thinks similar...

http://parislemon.com/post/17998654387/google-microsoft-is-full-of-shit

ady4um · « **Reply #302 on:** February 22, 2012, 11:14:11 AM »

No intention to open a discussion in this topic, but to end one...

The article is about 2 different things, depending on how you look at it.

1_ Google said it will follow a certain recognized standard, and it didn't follow that standard. If the standard were to be followed, then no "extra" track down of users would had happened.

2_ For those sites not following that standard (whether they declare it in their privacy policy or not), the user can be tracked down, and certain web browsers will not protect your privacy using their standard methods (while the user thinks it is enough to protect his privacy, but it isn't).

Asyn · « **Reply #303 on:** February 22, 2012, 11:22:58 AM »

Quote from: ady4um on February 22, 2012, 11:14:11 AM

1_ Google said it will follow a certain recognized standard, and it didn't follow that standard. If the standard were to be followed, then no "extra" track down of users would had happened.

2_ For those sites not following that standard (whether they declare it in their privacy policy or not), the user can be tracked down, and certain web browsers will not protect your privacy using their standard methods (while the user thinks it is enough to protect his privacy, but it isn't).

1. Which article are you refering to..? (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657)
2. Well, there's also Firefox...

ady4um · « **Reply #304 on:** February 22, 2012, 01:16:29 PM »

Quote from: Asyn on February 22, 2012, 11:22:58 AM

Quote from: ady4um on February 22, 2012, 11:14:11 AM
1_ Google said it will follow a certain recognized standard, and it didn't follow that standard. If the standard were to be followed, then no "extra" track down of users would had happened.

2_ For those sites not following that standard (whether they declare it in their privacy policy or not), the user can be tracked down, and certain web browsers will not protect your privacy using their standard methods (while the user thinks it is enough to protect his privacy, but it isn't).

1. Which article are you refering to..? (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657)
2. Well, there's also Firefox...

1. Both. The final point is not about one company or the other are not exactly telling the truth. Is about sites' "real" privacy policy.
2. Yes, or IE9 (as MS "now" recommends) but the user needs to find the exact add-on to protect his privacy, and then know about all those new "tricks" popping out every day, and keep searching for new solutions... Just as with other security related issues, it never ends and no solution is permanently safe.